>>>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
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>>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.
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>>>http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/derivatives/bank_exposure.html
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>>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.
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>Words and phrases mean different things to different people. Here is a partial example:
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>Capital punishment
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>If you are rich it is a restriction on your ability to steal as much as you wish.

I also had in mind that they'd also have to return what they stole, plus interest calculated at their own junk rates plus late fees plus administrative fees. Plus some humiliation, like having to apologize in person to the first few thousand of surviving victims.