1.0 link 85786 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/loretta-napoleoni/rogue-finance_b_85786.html Globalized high finance has been shaken by yet another scandal. Société Générale (SocGen), the second-largest French bank, is in serious trouble due to the wild speculative transactions of rogue trader Jerome Kerviel. But this weekend in Tokyo, the ministers of finance and central bankers of the G7 will discuss another matter. Behind SocGen's colossal loss of 4.5 billion euros ($7 billion) there is another, much more serious crisis that the Kerviel affair has made it possible to hide. In mid-January,...

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