Comparing your family budget to the sovereign debt of the United States is a little like comparing two kindergartners tossing a paper airplane to the Apollo 11 mission.

This is America: Corporate stealing is practically the national pastime, and Goldman Sachs is far from the only company to get away with doing it.

The individual incentive not to commit crime on Wall Street now is almost zero.

America's always had a real passion for lunatic movements. That's one of the things we're probably known for around the world, I would imagine.

'Prop trading' is just a fancy term for banks gambling in the market for their own profit.

For a country founded on the idea that rights are inalienable and inherent from birth, we’ve developed a high tolerance for conditional rights and conditional citizenship.

Wall Street has turned the economy into a giant asset-stripping scheme, one whose purpose is to suck the last bits of meat from the carcass of the middle class.