Nicholas Kristof’s new column in the New York Times has some great, specific ways to make Wall Street and the entire banking industry serve to better the economy, rather than to destabilize it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/opinion/sunday/kristof-the-bankers-and-the-revolutionaries.html
The Occupy Wall Street movement that is currently gathering momentum in New York City needs to pay attention if it is going to be about anything more than just blowing off steam.