Here was a reasoned argument on the side of the many who find things too often rigged against them by vested interests and cartels.
As he berated "fast-buck" traders, something for nothing "predators", "asset strippers", "vested interests", "cosy cartels", "rigged markets" and "Britain's closed circles", here was the answer to what drives Ed Miliband on.
It is in the cartels' interest to keep America's drug users apathetic and Pentagon generals unprovoked.
Four other banks did admit their involvement in a cartel relating to euro interest rate derivatives, and were fined more than €1bn.
But Ben and Chon have grown this crop too successfully for their own good, attracting the extreme interest of a Mexican cartel in Baja, a group not friendly to competition.
Often in the past, the OPEC nations have resolved to manage production and prices with Greenspan-like precision, only to see their plans crumble as members pursue their individual interest, rather than the cartel's.
But since it's in each member's self-interest to cheat, the cartel as a whole ends up producing more than it says it will.
As foreign governments prioritize investment in the cloud, the United States cannot hesitate because of hypothetical security threats that serve the entrenched interests of the I.T. cartel.
We rely on shareholders to impose morality in the global marketplace, but are mistaken, for many corporations have no qualms about operating cartels, rigging interest rates, avoiding tax, selling horsemeat as beef, or ripping off the customer through fuel and energy pricing.
A relatively new and particularly violent group, La Familia Michoacana, is undermining the electoral system and day-to-day governance of this south-central state, pushing an agenda that goes beyond the usual money-only interests of drug cartels.
