巴克利等上20家伦敦与华尔街大银行多年幕后操纵利率近日曝光，这是涉及全球货币信贷与金融体系的惊天大丑闻。呵呵，呵呵呵呵：
1.Matt Taibbi at Rollingstone:
"This is unbelievable, shocking stuff. A sizable chunk of the world’s adjustable-rate investment vehicles are pegged to Libor, and here we have evidence that banks were tweaking the rate downward to massage their own derivatives positions. The consequences for this boggle the mind. For instance, almost every city and town in America has investment holdings tied to Libor. If banks were artificially lowering the rates to beef up their trading profiles, that means communities all over the world were cheated out of ungodly amounts of money.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/a-huge-break-in-the-libor-banking-investigation-20120628#ixzz1zXnW*****Vi"
2. CEO resigned： http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-03/barclays-ceo-diamond-quits-after-record-libor-rigging-fine-1-.html
3. rotten culture: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-02/barclays-case-shows-something-s-rotten-in-banking-culture.html
There will be more, much more. The scandals are unending, the system is rotten to the core, "Rome was burning, and Nero was playing fiddles"
