It seems a bit ironic that on one hand we are celebrating the 200th birthday of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of his book On the Origin of Species, while on the other, we are desperately trying to prevent his theory of “evolution by natural selection” from working in our current financial system...

Bills now winding their way through Congress would tax between 70% and 90% of bonuses paid to any executive earning in excess of $250,000, if he or she is employed by a business that received more than $5 billion from U.S. bailout funds...

No doubt about it...

With the global economy mired in recession and financial crisis, policymakers everywhere have launched a series of monetary, financial, and fiscal responses...