pn....IMO.....you've made the most commonly made mistake....and, by doing so, you have reinforced/validated the premise which is the basis of the vilification of Wall Street....
very simply....(and, I am NOT trying to be insulting)......you've bought into a fabrication....
read the last half of your sentence....and, remember, the article was about derivatives....
There's people who get government checks and then there's the banksters who take wealth away from the population.
how are banks taking money away from people via derivatives? derivatives have nothing to do with the general public
derivatives are financial instruments which are valued based upon other paper instruments....
derivatives = paper with a value based upon another piece of paper...
reality.....derivatives give "banks" the ability to create money out of nothing....LITERALLY....
why do you think the government bailed out the "evil bankers"?
why do you think the fed will insure derivatives in the future....???
derivatives are the biggest scam ever levied upon a financial system....