Bring me the head of Ben the Baptist!

By Megan McArdle
There are a lot of liberal blogs calling for Wall Street's head today. I agree that the bankers who did this should suffer. But I disagree in two important ways: I think the bankers are suffering, and if we make them suffer the way many people want to, I think we'll all end up suffering more. More on this a little later.

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http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2008/03/bring-me-the-head-of-ben-the-baptist/3054/