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Hear hear, and if there could be some regulation over the bonus system that would be good too (if a trader gets some percentage of the earnings in a good year, should he not pay a percentage of the losses in a bad one?).

"Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. - Galbraith"
by Cyrille (cyrillev domain yahoo.fr) on Tue Mar 18th, 2008 at 08:56:51 AM EST
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er, yes!

unless of course he has the right connections...

and some damaging evidence up his sleeve, to half-nelson the pols with.

~Government budget deficits are not nearly as dangerous as the deficits we have created in vital and complex natural systems.~ Naomi Klein.

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Tue Mar 18th, 2008 at 09:30:50 AM EST
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What an absolutely, astoundingly subversively good idea!

Capitalism searches out the darkest corners of human potential, and mainlines them.
by geezer in Paris (risico at wanadoo(flypoop)fr) on Tue Mar 18th, 2008 at 03:51:29 PM EST
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