The Occupy people have done a wonderful thing. On Monday, just as the comment period on the new regulation was closing, a subgroup of seven known as Occupy the SEC submitted a 325-page comment to all relevant federal agencies demanding a stricter "Volcker Rule" -- the part of Dodd-Frank that aims to limit the amount of proprietary trading, or risky bets made with a firm's own money (frequently and ultimately meaning YOUR money), in which megabanks can participate.
Somebody's been watching "Idiocracy"...