Wall Street and Washington conspire to destabilize the U.S. economy, one barrel of oil at a time

“Wall Street is a high crime area in which we basically have no cops on the beat,” says former securities lawyer Dennis Kelleher, head of Better Markets, a nonprofit devoted to protecting taxpayers from the Too Big to Fail crowd. Then again, the same people have been doing the same thing for 25 years. Yet regulation just keeps getting weaker. “You will know that somebody’s serious when they put 500 FBI agents and a dozen of our best prosecutors on Wall Street,” says Kelleher. Read the full story here.