Well, where to begin. It's obvious to all that things are not good on Wall Street. The Dow dropped 500 points today, which is not the story, but rather a headline that may grab some peoples attention. Lehman Brothers was allowed a tragic death without any government interference, for the first time in this whole mess the Government and our Non-Governmental private controlling Federal Reserve have allowed market forces to take place. I applaud them for that, though, they couldn't resist earlier involvement in Bear Stearns, or CountryWide, which were just as much a mess. Bank of America gobbled up Merril, no suprise there as the CEO seems obsessed with creating the largest monolithic Bank that is legally possible, and there huge deposit base, allowed him to do that. I think the term "to big to fail" really applies to Bank of America now, they've swalled CountryWide and Merrill, along with some smaller acquistions in the past few years, they now hold over 10% of all deposits on the books, and control CountryWide, and Merrill, that is a lot of power in the hands of a few men.
