What is Occupy Wallstreet?

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In the first act, bankers took advantage of deregulation to run wild (and pay themselves princely sums), inflating huge bubbles through reckless lending.

Which normal citizens took advantage of buddy. Don't just blame the bankers. I personally know, and I bet almost everyone on these boards does also, at least three people who rode the wave trying to cash in on home prices and got burned. Whose choice was that? The bankers didn't force them to sign these balloon rates. I'd hope if they bought a house, people would understand what the hell they were doing. Unless your implying all Americans are too stupid to understand what they are doing from day to day, and the bankers are the ones who control the world? This is a load of hogwash.

Well, the deregulation we are talking about is presumably, the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933, from wikipedia,

Admittedly, I didn't know much about that until I read about it just now, but regardless, my response was directed solely toward the "lending" bit of that passage. Even if the bankers went hog wild, they had help turning the system on it's head; they couldn't have done it all on their own. That was my point. Do they need more oversight? Obviously, but we can't put all the blame on them either.