The banks and speculators brought our nation to the brink of disaster. We need our government to do several things to ensure the economy does not worsen:
Restore and regulate the division between commercial and investment banking (Glass-Steagle);
Prevent complex financial instruments such as Credit Default Swaps;
Actively reduce and regulate monopolies;
Bring banks into smaller and more distributed entities;
Require significant increases in capitalization for speculators;
Support underwater homeowners before mortgage investors and servicers';
Tax hedge fund transactions;
Investigate and bring to justice those involved in bank fraud, pricing collusion and speculation causing the 2008 economic meltdown.



