Jon Stewart's guest last nite: Yet another reaon why we are in so much economic trouble

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28. And what everybody in the field of gekko finance knows is

that this practice is booming at the same time that the resources to investigate this behavior have been drastically cut. The old regulatory agencies like the SEC are captured. It pays huge and there is little risk, so the cycle continues. The lawyers love it because they're making a killing and all the players involved put a portion of their profits back into bribing the politicians, which is the best investment they could possibly make. It should be highly organized crime but they've made it legal. Capone controlled his fiefdom in Chicago but he didn't own the feds. Wall Street has bribed the highest authority there is. There's no one to appeal to but the people. But that's a tall task when even on this this forum, it seems like a majority must wait for the president to sound the alarm to take action before they're concerned. And we keep waiting.