Ted Kaufman: “I have been deeply impressed with the level of commitment to not only fighting the cartels, but to cleaning up…”

Widespread cheating and fraud of the sort that drove the speculative housing and derivatives securities bubbles are anathema to public confidence in the markets.

We have got to get away from this too-big-to-fail. It is bad in so many different ways in terms of the concept.

The panic of 2008 has subsided, but it has been replaced by the gnawing pain of countless men and women who can't find work, who can't keep their homes, and who don't know whether their economic story will ever end in recovery.

A paper tiger that will fall apart the minute it is tested in a real life financial crisis