Oye Vey

There is the occasional writer I envy, not because I covet his/her "voice" or style or subject and such, but rather his/her access.  Joe Nocera has been "promoted" from the business page to the main op-ed page, and today talks with a Real Banker.  What's revealing, and you should always read Joe just because, is that the Banker asserts what many of us in the anti-Banker wing have been saying:  banking is only a Yenta for money.  When bankers decide that they should get rich on the process, the process itself is distorted. 

Boy howdy.