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Wall Street made this mess. Wall Street must pay for it

by The Investor on March 14, 2008

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Am I the only investor sick of hearing financial industry insiders bleating that the US Federal Reserve must do more to ease their pain? Am I the only stock market investor who would like to see the world’s major indices fall hard to purge and punish the companies – and polices – that set the stage for the credit crunch?

Apologies to my regular readers for what really will sound like a rant. But responsible investing for the long-term by implication means taking an interest in – and having faith that – the market system will not destroy itself during your lifetime through greed and incompetence.

This current debacle is the most serious threat to Western capitalism since the Berlin Wall came down. So please, let me explain why I’m angry.

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Ferdinand Barnacle’s warning on financial corruption

by The Investor on September 20, 2007

‘My dear Mr Clennam,’ returned Ferdinand, laughing, ‘have you really such a verdant hope? The next man who has as large a capacity and as genuine a taste for swindling, will succeed as well. Pardon me, but I think you really have no idea how the human bees will swarm to the beating of any old tin kettle; in that fact lies the complete manual of governing them. When they can be got to believe that the kettle is made of the precious metals, in that fact lies the whole power of men like our late lamented.
Ferdinand Barnacle (Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens)

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