LEFT TO RIGHT:
LLOYD BLANKFEIN - CEO of GOLDMAN SACHS
JAMIE DIMON - CEO of JPMORGAN CHASE & Co.
JOHN MACK - COB of MORGAN STANLEY
BRIAN MOYNIHAN - CEO of BANK OF AMERICA.

"BIG FISH EAT LITTLE FISH" began with the euphemistic phrase for defaulting mortgages, "UNDER WATER." I was struck by its application to this particular form of property damage: financial ruin. Not to mention its eerie proximity, in time, element and effect, to Hurricane Katrina, and, in a larger (longer) context, global warming (i.e. the melting of glaciers and polar ice caps, overflowing and warming ocean currents, blah, blah, blah...

But, as it played out, I was absolutely fascinated by the purity of disregard the titans of our banking and capital investment institutions—ergo, "BIG FISH"— have for the millions of people whose lives they'd ruined—not just put under water, but sunk to the bottom of the ocean—in the process of reaping obscene profits from their predatory gobbling, Therefore, "BIG FISH EAT LITTLE FISH."