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These policies are already eroding prosperity (at least in the short term), particularly in societies ruled by strong laws democratically initiated and having strong civic institutions. State revenues are understandably diminishing, undermining investment in advanced education, in research, in infrastructure and in new critically important designs for living. Add to this brew erroneous financial instruments and endless refinancing, which benefits only the negotiators in the short term. The result: lack of hard core economic invention leads, as we have seen already over the past several years, to economic collapse. However forcefully the argument has been and continues to be made, that the manipulation of financial instruments trumps science, development and invention, it is a perilous course. Promoting erroneous loans jeopardizes the nether world of the derivatives market, a devilish concotion, sinister, stalking the meek. A recent Atlantic Monthly article, What���s Inside America���s Banks, by Frank Partnoy and Jesse Eisinger, is one of several critical articles that have appeared in the Atlantic regarding the American financial situation. The authors point out how Wells Fargo���s frightening derivatives position, suggesting that such a position undermines the HYLAND