Banks should pay extra taxes to compensate the economy for the harm that they caused it. And so should the ratings agencies and appraisers and brokers and lawyers who sat by as banks turbocharged a underregulated mess for short term profit

And the business schools that taught them these tricks ;)

And the government economist who believed that a free market always adjusts itself & in their models with data on the recent past that "never reflected a so called abnormal event", how can anyone’s models only take in events that don’t reflect these possibilities

and the consumer for believing that the basic principals of life just changed & though life actually worked on cheap credit & that money could be made on speculation rather than hard work

Duyverthink its a lot of people to blame, & im saying this never having loved banks ever :) also think attitude in the developed world need to change FAST, if we don... Read more’t look at places like China that people work hard & don’t expect the state to nanny them...., then we must not cry when they become the supper power, after all as per our economics prof. it all comes down to one simple factor OUTPUT....... & what ever tricks we try play/invent/fool ourselves.., less OUTPUT, less economic power, that simple.......