want to buy here's why bankers deserve capital punishment read these two stories this is from barry ritholtz and both stories relate to the volcker rule and the lobbyist that have bastardized the whole thing the volcker rule made bloated a week yes they couldn't kill the rule instead they are getting congress and regulators to render it morbidly obese and bedridden so i guess the american population will have sympathy for those you know people who have to be airlifted out of their beds well they've turned the volcker rule which of course is named after paul a vocal former chairman of the federal reserve and is meant to bar financial institutions that are protected and subsidized by the federal government from trading for their own accounts that is it's pretty simple traders shouldn't speculate for their own personal gain using the money you and i pay in taxes because there's no deterrent in other words they hit area bankers committing crimes but instead of prosecuting them for criminal behavior they said well let's create another piece of legislation the volcker rule and by four it gets into