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

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.

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

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.

There are some who think that the government is limited in how many corruption cases it can bring against Wall Street, because juries can't understand the complexity of the financial schemes involved. But in 'U.S.A. v. Carollo,' that turned out not to be true.

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