going to look at this from a big picture in history standpoint the thing that the collapse of lehman smart is the absolute peak of banker power from now on it's the power of networks intermediating the banks that will challenge the financial monopoly government doesn't understand this the bankers don't want to accept it and have learned our lessons sadly not so is it the government's fault that the bankers have too much power. fundamentally i think banks have ended up in an incredibly toxic alliance with governments and that's a fundamental problem for society it's not that we don't need money we need money we need capitalism but we don't and we should not have a situation where any industry is fundamentally subsidized by the government and when it makes mistakes the government rushes in to help it the fundamental flaw of lehman and what came after it was this sudden massive industry whether in the usa or whether in the european union of bailing out the banks suicidal socialist politicians such as gordon brown in the united kingdom collectivize the u.k. banking system in a manner that was