text: Time for the banks to get out of the brokerage /financial media/HFT/wealth management  businesses and go back to their grass roots.  Stop manipulating commodity prices /blue chip corp stock prices. Allow supply/demand economics to once again determine  fair market pricing which reflects need for continued capital investment  and the ten to fifteen year time frame required to bring projects online.  The banking empire as it exists today can decide where it wants prices, have it's expert financial advisers rationalize /justify those prices, and then have it's media empire publish the fabrications and generate billions of $ profits for it's HFTs.  Pretty neat self contained generator of $ at expense of average Joe and non financial corporations. Who in their right mind would want to invest capital for widget production when the Banks dictate the price of your widgets to satisfy their greed.