Since most people have been forced into 401K style retirement accounts, the investment arena needs to be cleaned up. Outlaw shorts and calls as well as derivatives. If you like the stock, buy it, if you do not then sell it. Do not allow sophisticated sellers to manipulate the market and unnecessary add volatility thereby decreasing consumer confidence in the economy on the whole. If the average person does not feel they will stand a chance to make money in the market then they might not invest like they should.
Aggressively prosecute the people who were culpable for this last market failure. During the last SL crisis lots of people went to jail. Put new laws in place, written to be “general” but applicable to a wide range of nefarious deeds. “If it looks like fraud, acts like fraud



