You forgot a truly free market is self regulating and can not be regulated by legislature. Your regulation that you are referring to is are laws and policies to protect the financial institutions from the free market. When do you remember a market free of regulation aside from the market itself? You are right Goldman Sacks did nothing wrong (if the customer demands overpriced securities any responsible firm gives the customer what it wants) it is not their fault that millions of investors were deluded into thinking that 1+1 can be more than 2. Who would run a business and tell the customers are wrong. And nobody will make billions of dollars from a public frightened of oil and willing to pay a large premium for GREEN (this oil spill is a GREENIES wet dream come true)I am sure Al Gore is in mourning. By the way I have some stuff to sell you (its a re once in a life time opportunity)