Who needs a president again? (other than the greedy politicians!!!!)

We're kind of like greedy kids, using it all up, aren't we?

What a waste if they don't. Think how much we feed those samurai.

It is the victims of predatory lenders who need government help.

Smart and greedy bankers and traders will always find ways to circumvent new rules

I'm just saying that, when you focus on whether they are or are not a bunch of greedy bastards, you don't actually get around to the point of making laws that are either going to either change the way they operate, or you're going to get around to really reducing the amount of oil and reducing our dependence on oil.

Second, it can focus new resources in critical areas such as education, malaria, agriculture, and infrastructure, and ensure that most funding goes to well governed countries.

Politicians and central bankers gain little by letting the greedy or careless face the full consequences of their actions, for many innocent people would suffer as well.

After all, isn t it the fault of the CDS market s avaricious speculators that Greece was on the verge of default and that Greek public employees have had to endure deep wage cuts?

They are exploited in order to satisfy the selfish appetites of a handful of irresponsible politicians who lust for power and are sometimes in the pay of multinationals greedy for sordid and disgraceful profits.

The Socialists blame greedy financiers, but who does not? In terms of remedies, the Socialists do not offer anything more than the Keynesian solutions that are now being proposed by the right.

About one million Haitians now live in the Dominican Republic, but only about 10 of the Haitian laborers in the country are there legally, a condition that invites their exploitation by greedy employers.

In European eyes, Americans lack such sophisticated understanding, and often have no interest in acquiring it, seeing the land around and beyond Israel as populated largely by greedy oil sheikhs and dangerous religious fanatics.

The broader implication is that we need to look beyond greedy bankers and spineless regulators (and there were plenty of both) for the root causes of this crisis.

The rationale is clear if these officials, institutions, and policies were held accountable, the reform agenda would necessarily shift from regulating greedy bankers and their bonuses to asking broader questions. Might government mandates contribute to bad behavior by private players?

If you believe that the blame lies with greedy bankers and unthinking investors, lulled by the promise of a government bailout, or with a market driven crazy by irrational exuberance, we had studied all this too, in great detail.

There are many lessons for America, and the rest of the world but among them is the need for greater financial sector regulation, especially better protection against predatory lending, and more transparency.