Even as those politicians in league with Wall Street continue to decry any regulation of them at all, Wall Street and the Banks can’t just stop themselves from cheating everyone for even long enough to attempt pulling off an insincere “Just Trust Us” smile. I refer, of course, to the most recent two of an unbroken string of scandals: Libor (banks violating the Free Market, to manipulate and fix rates to their personal aggrandizement); and, J.P. Morgan (long the crier of “we don’t need regulations”, now caught in their own web of stock market gambling and manipulations).

So, what better time for the above? A Bird Whose Wings Need Clipping, from the front cover of the March 16th, 1881 issue of Puck magazine.

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To find prior episodes of this series,click on Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons. And, to find earlier posts concerning financial reforms in general, click here.

Doug Wheeler

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