Stimulatingly stupid

Congratulations to Congress for stimulating America’s most innovative financial wizards at the economy’s greatest time of need. Thanks to an 11th-hour amendment to the stimulus bill in the Senate, the fiscal alchemists of Wall Street are mobilising their forces en masse. Unfortunately, their imminent objective will not be to fix the financial system and get the global economy moving again. Rather it will be to find ways around this misguided piece of populist legislation and pay back government ...