“32% of GDP Comes From Finance and Only 20% from Manufacturing, So What Does Wall-Street Actually Finance?”

http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/2007/11/20/welcome-to-america-home-of-the-speculation-economy/

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_49/b4061102.htm

http://www.theconglomerate.org/2007/12/gregory-mark-on.html

http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/94.4/br_93.html