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Obama's Financial Reform - A Distraction from the Real Issues

It is impossible to achieve economic stability in a closed system (Earth, for instance) by simultaneously increasing population and per capita consumption. Some underlying resources have a fixed and limited supply, and some nominally renewable resources will become extinct if they are not allowed time to reproduce and mature, or are harvested too aggressively. And that doesn't consider the effects of acid rain on the pH of arable soils or habitable ocean water, or of global warming on pernicious disease vectors, let alone inevitable Tambora events whose timing is unknowable.
That said, a few dozen public hangings of the most outrageously greedy bankers and corporate plutocrats might eliminate the fellatio of Mammon as a sacrament among urban financial creatures, and delay the inevitable catastrophe that must follow an economy based on steadily growing consumerism.