A non-biased article from a business publication. Really!

[Che Billy]

http://www.businessinsider.com/what-wall-street-protesters-are-so-angry-about-2011-10?op=1

[Jnana]

1. Actually, this article demonstrates why most business publications are good sources for accurate and

non-biased information.

Any evaluation of businesses and markets requires an analysis of the accounting and numbers do not lie. The charts and graphs in this article provide factual backup for the writers assertions. In contrast, most of the what passes for reporting the "news" in traditional news publications is nothing more than emotionally driven gobbledygook.

[xchrom]

2. Figures don't lie but Liars figure. Nt

[jtuck004]

4. "If you torture statistics enough, they'll confess."

Now that's Alan Simpson, who I disagree with on many things (my world would actually treat people as worth enough to keep out of poverty when they are over 65) but I do think you are getting exactly what he thinks, rather than a smokescreen. Wish there was more of that around the table.

[xchrom]

6. +1

[Lucky Luciano]

3. A good counterpoint to all those who say OWS doesnt have a complaint.

The stats here point to something systemic rather than what a few whiners can't deal with.

[jtuck004]

5. K&R.

Is this the way to do outreach? 'Cause most people won't look at or learn from this, just people who like to read chart porn. How to bring it to Homer and Marge Simpson, and piss them off...that's the question.

I wonder how people envision it will be fixed, or if they do? 'Cause right now there aren't enough that feel they have been hurt by the actions of others. The public education lie is that either it was all Fannie and Freddie or greedy seniors or the business cycle or - anything but laying the blame at the feet of the people who over-leveraged and then broke finance.

Until more people understand how they were and are being stolen from, and see something wrong with it, none of this will be addressed in anything more than a superficial manner. All the while the financial sector, with the members of their gang who work inside the government, work 24x7 to profit.

And citizens are more defenseless against this than they think they are, I'm afraid.