No, regulations are put in place to attempt to curb the greed at the top. Unfortunately, those who make money lending money still control the money supply (how's that for a conflict of interest). That is a much larger issue than any bonus. The current regulations are face-saving measures at best to make the administration look good. nothing has changed for real. It's all an illusion to fool the masses. People are still going to live outside their means and we are going to end up right here the next time around.

Just in case you haven't noticed, regulation just causes the greedy to find ways around it. It's been happening for over 120 years now and it'll never stop. It's like a computer virus. Those who want more find a loophole and exploit it. Any efforts to stop them are after the fact.

I hope you're wrong!

I do as well but history proves otherwise. We have fundamental flaws in our monetary policy that allow money to be created from thin air to meet demand. It violates the #1 rule of economics that everything is scarce. Until we fix that, we are doomed to repeat history again. Stopping risky investments by banks is small beans. That exasperated the situation but the real problem was the unlimited amount of credit the banks gave themselves.

And with all that said, we are now going back to a take on the original plan to buy the toxic assets. The Paulson/Bush plan. Now what does Dodd head up? Oh, the senate banking committee. Now, if you can connect the dots you can see how the plan really got changed.