Wall Street: Same as It Ever Was

[HawgWild]

In this month's Atlantic. OP this one's for you ---> http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/07/the-14-biggest-ideas-of-the-year/8556/9/

[OldPoop]

I need to learn this new PC lingo.

Interconnectedness, too, has increased. With the bailout came a deluge of liquidity, courtesy of Ben Bernanke: the Fed bailout was tantamount to dropping billions of $100 bills from helicopters over Lower Manhattan.

"Interconnectedness" sounds a lot better than my old fashioned term "in bed with".

But it's a lot harder to spell.

[HawgWild]

And because of this "interconnectedness": this increase in financial correlation, if and when another crisis hits, it will be uncontrollable: it's certain to strike absolutely everything, all at once. And though some people think Congress can simply regulate the problems away, there's no way to legislate solutions to problems that are endemic to our financial system.

[snoblind]

I'm afraid there is no "if" simply when.