Huge chunks of that money is on stock and stock options
which has value only as long as the banks continue their pump and dump to make paper profits.
Even a 1% down turn erases enormous amounts of "money" from the value.

In other words, we need another Lehman Bros. to enter the picture.

Downside....it will be so much worse for everyone when it comes.

would choke on a wad of $100 dollar bills;

and Jamie Dimon to.

Disgusting, evil, greedy, bandits.

they'd have to hire less talented people to create worthless financial instruments and crash the world economy.

and private equity pay much much more

money as they run out of food.

If this is too painful, Timothy "Killer" Geithner would fit just as easily.

Are these absurd salaries and bonuses for half as much productivity coming out of cash parked in offshore accounts to dodge taxes or what?

Meanwhile, their Greece account and the Greek people...

grinning piece of s...!!!!!

actually that's the main threat of financialization--not even that it just sends all the jobs to China but that the corporate raiders and 401k managers make more dinero wrecking a company and betting it'll fail, or just dismembering it and firing everyone: the old capitalists made money by manufacturing and by milking poor neighborhoods and the Third World, but now we have a real derivatives problem bouncing over our heads ('coz it's a bubble, get it!)

There are no words to describe it. If there was ever a face desperately in need of a fist, it would belong to Blankfein.

( an old joke but true in this case )

after Goldman stole their money. The whole game is rigged. The world is in serious trouble with people like this robbing us all.

along with Hank Paulson, Geithner, Greenspan, and BushCo in general---these guys never go to jail or get fined or get their ill-gotten gains redistributed to the investors who lost everything.