Just can't take Reich seriously, you know, him and that NAFTA thing. The OCC, by the way, is a US Agency [owned] by the Banks. Obama's "successful" Financial Reform, nearly DOA of any serious regulation, turns out to be drowning in lobbyists. Who'd ever guess that?

I agree with "Let the Super Bankers Go."

I say let the US get together with Europe and make sure our regulations are the same. And IF these corporations find themselves on an island, let them eat be there all by themselves.

US and Europe consumers need to work towards ending relationships with them and use local bankers for everything.

Money can hurt them too, and right now the greedy monsters seem to think they are invincible, and in charge.

I agree with getting rid of the super banksters.
No recovery of any kind is possible while these criminals still operate.
Send them to Pakistan or Guantamino or anywhere

Get the message to Congress. Get the message to the President. Shout the message to everybody. Banks are Hell and Republicans (plus those 31 Democrats - whoever they are) are the Devil.

Congress and the President need to bail out the US infrastructure and the jobs - NOT the banks. Are you listening Mr Obama?

WOULD SOMEBODY PLEASE IDENTIFY THESE CREEPS?.... WE NEED A CAMPAIGN OF SHAME.... REVEAL JUST WHO THESE PEOPLE ARE AND LET THEM FACE THE WRATH OF THE MASSES! GREENWICH WILL NEVER BE THE SAME.

The Hyper-banks care absolutely NOTHING about the health of local economies anywhere on this planet and, in fact, consider them throw-away entities in their quest to amass and control the value of capital and the value of labor on a global scale. However, history has proven that this over-reaching paradigm is inevitably doomed, from the Roman Empire to the colonialist European era. Eventually, the global system will implode from spreading its control too thin. We are living this moment.

Ahh, this is why Goldman, Citibank, and two others have set up shop in Iran as of late! Now it makes sense!

The best casino capitalism, and economically "...the cheapest and least intrusive jurisdiction in which to operate" is Iran, of course! Where else can you launder the best, most efficient oil-rich, nuclear-ambitioned money in the world!!!

Race to the bottom, indeed!!!!

Ordinary citizens like most of the correspondents here need to go well beyond kvetching about banks, the evils of big business, Wall Street and so on. So far we have lacked a plan and no one is in government is helping. Yet there are millions of us who are both hurt and outraged by the banks and Wall Street and the corporate world. Here's practical plan. First close your account at Citibank, Wells Fargo, or wherever, and shift all your funds to a bank that has a stronger ethical sense, that cares for its customers, and doesn't get into debt by gambling with our money and then using more of our money to bail themselves out. Such good banks exist. I've just left Wells Fargo after 30 years and transferred to one such , written to WFC and told them why. (There is great pleasure in writing such a letter.) Next, we should find out all those mega firms that keep the banks going. It would be relatively easy to compile a list. Maybe Walmart would be at the head, then McDonald's. I don't know. Anyway, the idea would be, in a systematic and concerted way to boycott one of those firms for a week each by refusing to do business with them of ANY kind for that period. Let them know what we are doing and why. No gas from BP for a week, and so on. They will start listening. They will certainly not listen to our rhetoric as such. It has no teeth. Maybe we could try another alternative, that is, we could institute a kind of national fund consisting of billions of dollars out of our pockets. That fund will be run by the most ethical men and women we can find and its purpose would be to buy elections the way that corporations do now. We would have more money than the corporations and get our own candidates in power. Do the math. There are about 100 million of us. It's possible. However, that plan, for a host of reasons, is not likely to work. So let's try the first idea: take power away from the banks by threatening the businesses that support them. If they don't listen, we will make the boycott last two weeks. What say? Anyone like the idea?

If someone has a better plan I am sure we all would like to hear it.

Oh, one more thing, Anonymous on 10/7 at 21:47, before you heat up the tar, FIND OUT WHO'S PAYING COMMENTER WHO CALLS HIMSELF ERICH VON FREEMASON. He's a total troll.