Today, Damien Marietta, manager of equity portfolio in a large French investment bank, estimates that 2008 has served to reveal the weaknesses of finance. "Down the masks could be the moral of the year 2008 where financial capitalism was allowed to appear weaknesses.

Do not forget, we have just witnessed, pell-mell, to the greatest stock market crash since 77 years. A financial scandal of unprecedented proportions. The last case Madoff, is almost a caricature, with thousands of savers robbed and regulation to subscribers absent. Besides the Kerviel affair, last January, is almost pales: do not forget, however, it remains the biggest trading loss in history (just over 5 billion euros). (more...)