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>>Bankers being bankers, which is to say lizards, they successfully watered down the financial reform bill and continue to work on watering down the rest. Even after what happened two years ago they want it to be business as usual.
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>Did you read this one ?
>http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/188551

No, I hadn't. I just read it now. His general point seems correct, and has been said by many others -- the financial reform bill could have / should have gone further. I wish he had gone into some detail at the end when he writes "these reforms fail to address even a tenth of the real problem." What is the other 90%? Surely requiring financial institutions to separate their banking and investment operations into different companies would have been part of comprehensive reform.