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Accounting fraud, anyone? super-leverage, anyone? oh, giant banks. no? okay, perhaps our friend, simon johnson has some answers, contributing business editor to the "huffington post." simon, do you think anybody knows why the market did what it did last week? >> no, i don't, dylan. certainly no regulators have the faintest clue. perhaps there are some market participants who know more, but they're not speaking out. >> if you were to look at the most useful thing, somebody who agrees with your assessment, somebody who agrees with my assessment, somebody who agrees with the assessment that's sha...
Victory. it will depend on what the audit shows. i do think the assets that were taken into the so-called maiden lane vehicles, which were started when bear stearns failed, those were interesting. and the more you get to look at those, the more unsettled you and many other people are going to become. so the sanders' amendment is helpful, but not huge. >> reality check -- we've got accounting fraud at the heart of the banking system. super-leverage is still in place, the big banks are bigger than they've ever been. we've got $1 trillion good for -- you would think $1 trillion would be good for ...