I don’t like it, but there it is. … If they think it’s too complicated, they have no one to blame but themselves.
- Former Fed chairman Paul Volcker, commenting to the New York Times on how the proprietary trading ban he originally proposed to rein in banks’ risk-taking — once a simple 3-page letter to the president — has ballooned into 298 pages of complex regulations after Wall Street firms lobbied for many exemptions. (via officialssay)
And you complain about...cumbersome government is… People do not have