Quote: Your daily politics blog: Former IMF chief economist Simon Johnson, who now teaches at MIT, brings a slightly different perspective to the U.S. banking crisis, that of someone who has studied and been involved with resolving financial crises in developing nations. From that perspective, a key step in permanently resolving the crisis involves wresting control of the banking system from the elites who were at the helm when the crisis occurred, a step, Johnson argues, that neither the U.S. nor any other western nation has yet been willing to take.
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But the backdrops peel and the sets give way and the cast get eaten by the play, there's a murderer at the matinee, there are dead men in the aisles
And the patrons and the actors too are uncertain if the show is through and with sidelong looks await their cue, but the frozen mask just smiles
