>>> Which is why we don’t just need a financial bailout; we need an ethical bailout <<<


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Old iron, old bones, old rags, that raving slut
Who keeps the till. Now that my ladder's gone,
I must lie down where all the ladders start
In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart. (Yeats)




There are hundreds, if not thousands, of hedge-funds out there. Do we really think that Mr Madoff is the only one who figured out how to do a Ponzi scheme? Sunlight, please.