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present themselves in ways that are appealing but deceptive. In a news report appearing in Financial Times dated December 15, 2010, India's Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh accused Indian business leaders of having an "ethical deficit."
I read in the Waterloo, Iowa Courier dated July 25th, 2011, an article noting that the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act by US Congress in 1999 was the catalyst and continuing fuel that scorched the US economy. Wall Street's naked greed, its perverted honesty, unspeakable hubris, and contemptuous management vacuumed trillions of dollars from the pockets of 300 million Americans. Wall Street's new billionaire and trillionaire banksters should be the candidates for federal prison, not little Martha Stewart who was jailed in 2004 for making $200,000 on inside information. Wall Street has no more conscience than a fox in a poultry farm. But that's the immutable nature of these people.
In an April 2010 article in Rolling Stone Magazine, Matt Taibbi compared Goldman Sachs to a "great vampire squid, wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells of money," an apt description that also applies to Bank of America, JP Morgan, and Citigroup. Allowing these Wall Street banks to continue feeding their greed is destroying our democracies, our economies, our retirement plans and our freedoms. I think that when greed becomes the sole driving force, then all boundaries of geography, religions, caste, culture, and creed disappear. I hope my Jain community remains vigilant to avoid succumbing to the greed.
Corruption is the greatest act of himsa.
A VISIT WITH WARREN BUFFETT, THE WORLD'S SECOND RICHEST MAN
During the week of November 29, 2010, a class of students from a business school in Houston, Texas, went to see Mr. Warren Buffett (the world's second richest man) in Omaha,
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