An unregulated derivatives market essentially gives Wall Street a way to place hidden taxes on everything in the world.

With the derivatives market larger than ever, we need way more regulation of Wall Street, not less.

The mistake our politicians so often make with these industry leaders is in thinking they are interested in, or respectful of, the power of government. All they want is to keep stealing. If you can offer them the government’s seal of approval on that, they’ll take it. But if you can’t, well, they’ll take that too.

In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.

Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.

Within the cult of Wall Street that forged Mitt Romney, making money justifies any behavior, no matter how venal.