In thinking about the financial crisis—Wall Street, brokers as well as bankers, as well as their supporters in Congress, those who have promised us so much in return on behalf of so little these past few decades—I remembered hearing the words, “We request only that you trust us.”
But I was not trusting.  I was suspicious.  I was ill at ease.  Yet, who was I to question the wonders that they produced, the capital that they created, the products they financed, the fortunes they made.
But now I recall.  We had been warned.  They would come bearing gifts.  And then….  Here is that warning (in abridged form), drifting over the air waves on behalf of more than fifty years.

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