"Of course, it might be too late. A sinking economy can’t revive a sinking market – no matter who threw us down the well. The criminals should have been stopped before they put us in here."

It is too late. I have been writing on a message board of a very promising biotech company 3 years ago about the damage naked shorting was doing to therwise healthy companies and most investors on that board new it, but accepted it as part of the "free market". The company, GTC-biotherapeutics is now practically defunct. It will have to go for a RS to avoid delisting and it (plus 20 years of IP) will be taken over for next to nothing by a French Company next year.

This is for me impossible to understand. That the USA authorities have allowed the financial mafia to kill off thousands (if not tens of thousands) of excellent companies, which could have been the generators of future growth if they would have been given a fait chance. Bush (like all Republicans) gave priority to short-term profit (by the financial mafia) as against long term investmentin private businesses. Before this only happened in foreign policy (like the promotion of dictatorial regimes in Latin America during the seventies/eighties). Now it is even happening in their domestic market.

I am very sorry that all the talent Obama has is going to be wasted in cleaning up the mess. The guy has so much more to offer to the world.