Vanity Fair's editor, Graydon Carter, laid out a compelling case for Wall St's hijacking of Washington DC.  Unfortunately, he allowed blatant partisanship to cloud his objectivity when evaluating the role of Senate Republicans in the battle for financial reform.

As gold prices rise past $1200 an ounce and the Euro tumbles due to the debt contagion, Congressman Ron Paul continues to implicate the U.S. Federal Reserve as the one of the primary culprits for domestic and international monetary problems.