Greed corp may stage a comeback once good times return

From Moscow to Washington, politicians are ganging up on greed.

That's fine, but they really need to do more than shout from their bully pulpits if they want to rein in the natural impulse to accumulate wealth.

It's easy to see why finger-wagging is tempting for elected officials in economic times as bad as these. The last time we had a mess like this, Franklin D. Roosevelt, delivering his 1933 inaugural address, blasted "unscrupulous money changers."