The Occupy Wall Street movement is a protest uniquely suited to a generation schooled in social media. There are no leaders: it's crowd-sourced. Nor does it have any specific demands beyond a thorough reorientation of American priorities. It's as if thousands and thousands of people have 'unliked' Wall Street

After the banks made wildly risky bets with our money, we bailed them out. Congress enacted financial reform (the Dodd-Frank law). But Wall Street lobbyists immediately set about diluting it, along with its regulations. Dodd-Frank is now riddled with so many exemptions and loopholes that the largest banks are back to many of their old tricks

There are few things more infuriating than the suspicion that someone has gotten away with something, particularly if the rest of us haven't. Human nature is such that inequities, real or perceived, stick in our craws like a Tootsie Roll. That's probably why a New York Times story about General Electric not paying taxes rubbed so many people the wrong way