According to the NYT Wall Street excesses continue in a big way:
A 29-year-old man who works for a large investment management firm and was at Bagatelle’s brunch one recent Saturday and at Merkato 55’s the next, put it another way: “If you’d asked me in October, I’d say it’d be a different situation, and I don’t think I’d be here. Then the government gave us $10 billion.”
http://www.nytimes.com/...
If you click on the photos in the link you'll see more women with plastic surgery than on 'Sex in the City,' more bald guys from Wall Street blowing our nation's cash on $500 (or much much more) bottles of Champaign.
Basically, these people are shouting out 'F*uck You' to the rest of us.
Not that this is any different from GDI:
The Great Depression did not affect everyone the same way. Many rich people felt no impact at all, and were oblivious to the suffering of others...
from here
And here we have a guy who one year ago correctly predicted GDII, and tells you how you can have real profits by becoming a self proclaimed doctor, surgeon or dentist, or opening a bootleg pharmacy.
Selfishness is always in style.