I’m sat on the steps of the Federal Hall Memorial Building on Wall Street overlooking The New York Stock Exchange. The home of America’s financial powerhouse is a throng with Japanese tourists taking pictures and snapping up banks.

There is a palpable anxiety on Wall Street. I’m struck by the sheer number of people drawing deep on their cigarettes before pressing the stubs into the wall-mounted ashtrays like so many hopeful prayer requests pushed into the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. But these petitions are offered to the financial titans. The request is simple; restore things to the way they were before the distressed mortgage loans released their toxic fumes into our digital global financial village. Dean’s insightful blog ingeniously entitled “Secs in the City” sheds light on why the Masters of the Universe may be unable to un-answer their prayers.

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