hahahaha.......
Let's get some wild conspiracy theories going. After all, isn't that the very purpose of the internet?
I've actually seen someone post on the Cable thread a rant about the jewish conspiracy that controls EVERYTHING and is totally to blame for sub-prime...
Though Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, Smith (full name) were all WASP's I believe. No conspiracy but they do control much of the street nowadays - what is left of it anyway. And then there was also Bernie Madoff. A nice Jewish boy who graduated from the same H.S. as me, about 20 years before my time.
