Does Capitalism thrive on Main Street or Wall Street?

[Kirkland Laing]

Main Street. Wall Street does nothing constructive as far as economic growth is concerned. Literally nothing. I've spent my entire life working on Wall Street and its British equivalent and I've never done a single day's constructive work in my life. Wall Street is actually a massive drag on the real economy as we skim the entire system, legally rob Main Street businesses and just generally leach huge amounts of money out of the real economy that could be used for investment and growth into our own pockets. And cause periodic economic meltdowns which impoverish millions while redistributing vast amounts of money out of the pockets of the 99% upwards into the pockets of a couple of thousand blokes.

Send the Marines down to Wall Street, arrest everybody wearing a suit on the top floor of all the major banks' office buildings and execute them and it would be the single best economic policy move you could make.

What is your take when some people say...oh those politicians all have friends in Wall Street. Is it an accusation of the politician on the take for self? Or is it looking the other way when regulations are brought up in senate/congress...so that their pal corporations can benefit?


Best case in point: Hillary Clinton has friends in Wall Street. What are they implying from your perspective..and how that hurts Main Street.

I admit I am not versed at all in such a subject, I can only hope you can see what I am trying to ask.

I could write a book on this one. Let me give you an article to read. This guy has a great writing style and he writes very readable articles, he can make financial stuff sound very entertaining. But you'll read it and think to yourself this is great but it's obviously an over the top hyperbolic style of writing and probably not all true. Let me tell you this is word for word true and only gives a rough outline of the rampant criminality on Wall Street, how we completely own the politicians and the regulators and so on. It's a long article but you could all do worse than read it to give you an idea of how things are. I will have much more to add to this article and any replies from you lot later on.

Why Isn't Wall Street in Jail? - Rolling Stone