Two weeks ago one of the editors for DTN, Marcia Langly, made the guote"No one should trade the options market without reading Micheal Lewis book, titled "The Big Short."" Well I did. It blew my mind as to how a handful of inside traders could manufacture an options market on mortgage credit default swaps and then set it up to short it, thus costing the taxpayers 40 trillion dollars in bad dept. As I turned all the events over in my mind I have to ask you this question. How is this any different than what packers have been doing to cattlemen for the last twenty years?" In PickettvsIBP he proved that. So our govt.'s failure to react to that situation has caused it to assume an insurmountable dept. that will ruin our country? I have pondered over this for a while and all I can come up with is that US citizens need to sue Barney Frank for 40 trillion dollars. Anybody out there got a better idea?