WHY HAVEN'T ANY WALL STREET TYCOONS BEEN SENT TO THE SLAMMER?


	WHY HAVEN'T ANY WALL STREET TYCOONS BEEN SENT TO THE SLAMMER?

brightlight4

9-21-2009 1:37 PM

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9-22-2009 1:20 AM

Spiritualmonkey

In the great crash of the 1920s, the image was of financiers and bankers jumping out of their office windows.

This time around, I expect more than a few of them to get pushed by large, angry, broke crowds.

9-22-2009 4:10 AM

thisnamecantbetaken

Without regulations and laws against this kind of behaviour, maybe no laws were broken. It could be it was all done legally, as morally reprehensible as that may be. I doubt any fat cats will be made to pay for their greed capitalist ventures. It seems Wall Street is a lawless free-for-all take-what-you-want kind of place. Not only that, but what they did with mortgages derivatives, they are now doing with life insurances. Nothing has changed.

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