“‘Is my money safe?’ That’s question No. 1 for many Americans today. And it goes to the moral heart of the global financial crisis: lack of trust. But some of this trust can be restored simply and inexpensively. My idea? What the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) did for food-product labeling must be done for financial institutions. … Thanks to FDA guidelines, whether we’re buying vanilla yogurt or meat lasagna, we can look at the label and know what we’re getting. How much fat? How much sugar? How many calories? These questions are answered before we ever buy. We may choose to ignore them for a Ben & Jerry’s binge, but that’s our own business. We don’t need to be nutritionists to make an informed decision.” [editor’s note: This fellow’s inadvertently stumbled onto something here; the only error is the analogy. He should be comparing with Underwriters Laboratories CERTIFYING electrical appliances, not an FDA-clone (more likely to collude with those it’s sworn to “protect us from”)! - SAT] (10/09/08)