[dennisw]

Do a search in google news for “The End of the Financial World as We Know It” http://news.google.com/news?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS308US309&q=%22The%20End%20of%20the%20Financial%20World%20as%20We%20Know%20It%22&um=1&sa=N&tab=wn

Use that link. No sign in 99% of the time when you access NY Times via google news

[Travis McGee]

Great article, gracias para el linko.

[GOPJ]

...the S.E.C. itself is plagued by similarly wacky incentives. Indeed, one of the great social benefits of the Madoff scandal may be to finally reveal the S.E.C. for what it has become.

Created to protect investors from financial predators, the commission has somehow evolved into a mechanism for protecting financial predators with political clout from investors.

dennisw - Thanks for helping me read one totally insightful piece - when the New York Times is good - they are very very good.