I have a more fitting proposal for clerics in favor of this bogus call gouge your eyes out with a tack hammer if you wish to refrain from being seduced.

Instead of Schumpeter s creative destruction, bankers have engaged in destructive creation in order to gouge customers at every opportunity while shielding themselves behind a veil of complexity from the prying eyes of regulators (and even top management).

Moreover, Russia s efforts to gain monopoly control of the gas pipeline networks across Eurasia pose a direct danger for China, because monopolists can not only gouge their consumers, but also shut off supplies for political purposes, as Russia has done repeatedly over the past two decades.