Brain science: Why big bankers behave badly

Like most things in life, science can explain why big bankers are sleazeballs.  It's 30+ years of deregulation and financial bubbles that put at least two generations of bankers in permanent "kill" mode, focused on power, conquest and reward, while they're oblivious to risks and downsides.

It's evolution and brain science, folks.  It's incontrovertible.  And if you don't buy it then you're an ideologue.  These sleazeballs need a hard slap of negative reinforcement -- regulation, prosecutions, and jail time -- to re-wire their reptilian brains.

Bankers and the neuroscience of greed

The unconstrained power of bankers acts like a drug on their brains' reward systems, creating insatiable appetites

By Ian Robertson

July 2, 2012 | Guardian

URL:  http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/02/bankers-greed-brain-changes

Teacher to banker's son: Investment bankers are 'sleazeballs'

And the Teacher of the Year award goes to....!

It's just gravy that she made the school's quarterback cry.

Of course the teacher will probably be disciplined, if not fired, and all of the rich kids at this private school will get a brutal lesson in how the "real world" works, where money talks, and the powerful elite are petty, stupid, and pampered.

Barclays banker Hugh McGee wants son's teacher fired for 'sleazeball' comment

Hugh "Skip" McGee, one of Wall Street's best-paid bankers, has launched an extraordinary attack on staff at his son's exclusive private school after a teacher allegedly claimed that all investment bankers are dishonest "sleazeballs".

By James Quinn
December 2, 2009 | Daily Telegraph

URL: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/6712738/Barclays-banker-Hugh-McGee-wants-sons-teacher-fired-for-sleazeball-comment.html