but if it's the only industry where that happens, it's a lot easier to deal with. Banking is a heavily regulated industry, as it should, and the example of the 30s (the Glass-Seagall Act) shows that you can limit the worst excesses.

The thing is to limit the influence of investment banking on other industries, and one way to do that is maybe to take a harder look at mergers and acquisitions.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes