This whole panto is insurmountable. Greed runs in the background and its a human condition. The Barclay Brothers are about 85 and billionaires. But their only allegiance is to themselves, and they were quite comfortable trying to screw the Treasury for huge sums. The worrying thing is that they won at every stage up to the Supreme Court.
Shareholders and investors want to see profit. The currency and futures speculators want profit. Company directors want profit and so on. Few care about the wider impact, and that's just how it is. I'm cynical because I've spent my whole career in the thick of it, and the more complex it gets, the more wide reaching it gets, and there's big money to be made by those selling schemes.
