I'm a small investor hungry for safe investments providing a return comparable to what you could get in bonds 10 years ago. I'm hoping this investment bank idea can do that for me when the big players present new investment products based on the new infrastructure. At the same time I resent government not financing these things directly and offering us bonds at reasonable interest. Privatization just isn't as economical as the traditional public sector. Why should the guys running Blackrock get a piece of the action? What real value to these guys add? It is yet another private sector giveaway.