Should OWS's "Demand #1" be: You can't be an investment bank and a hedge fund at the same time?

[Electric Monk]

That seems pretty simple and straight forward to me. Relatively easy to understand, too.

[dd2003]

1. they dont oursource your jobs

having said that, shutting down the stock market would end unemployment

[dkf]

3. You've got it all backwards...shutting down the stock market would end retirement.

How else do you grow enough assets to retire?

[Laelth]

2. Other

1) Re-instate Glass-Steagall (repealed in 1999)
2) Repeal the Commodity Futures Trading Modernization Act of 2000

(both signed by Bill Clinton, fwiw)

That would effectively do what the OP suggests, but it's more precise (if also less easy to understand).

-Laelth

[justabob]

4. that is a good one, but I would say that getting corp money out

of elections and government in general is crucial. We will never get change as long as candidates are beholden to their corporate masters to win elections and stay in office. It is INSANE that millions and even Billions of dollars are needed to run for office above the city level. Once the money is out, dealing with all the rest becomes much easier.