[parsifal]

I keep stumbling across new information and new aspects on the meltdown. Guess who legalized "bucket shops" in 2000?

parsy, who keeps plodding along

[parsifal]

These links might also prove informative:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/19/60minutes/main4546199.shtml

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601109&sid=agFM_w6e2i00

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2009/03/eric-dinallo-we-modernised-ourselves.html

parsy, who is preparing for Wall Street’s “don’t regulate us” blitz

[Mister Muggles]

Bucket shops are still alive and well...a good 95% of all retail Forex brokers are bucket shops.

[A Strict Constructionist]

Most scandals where it’s in sports or stocks are related to gambling. I think we need new Kefauver hearings on “Organized Crime.” The Mob and WS would be shaking in their boots. We might find that they are one and the same.