There is a shared feeling on the streets around the world that the global economy is a Ponzi scheme run by and for Big Finance. People everywhere are waking up to the realization that there is something fundamentally wrong with a system in which speculative financial transactions add up, each day, to $1.3 trillion (50 times more than the sum of all the commercial transactions). Meanwhile, according to a United Nations report, ”in the 35 countries for which data exist, nearly 40 per cent of jobseekers have been without work for more than one year.”

A Tahrir Moment on Wall Street – Will people’s encampments emerge in financial districts around the world?