>This _might_ be vaguely related to the original question but check with your cats to be sure :))
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>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derivatives_market

I wonder whether they still understand what they buy and sell. It's the software that does it. Derivatives should be confined to mathematics and not let out at all.

>http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/derivatives/bank_exposure.html

Nice. The whole financial sector should be scrapped and reinvented. The axiom #1 would be that no money should be allowed to be made on others' loss. Deliberate destruction of any entity which produces any goods should not earn anyone a cent. And capital punishment should be redefined.