Buy it, strip it, flip it...

Hedgefond managers can rest assured. The G7/8 conference in Essen, Germany, has merely rocked their boats with a "new" financial buzzword: transparency.
As Germany has the presidency, not only of the EU but also of the G7/8, it has a bloody hard time achieving unanimity across the board, and yet a harder time taming the hedgefond sharks from the Anglo-Saxon business world, with their operational centres in London and the Big Apple and their offshore accounts on the Cayman Islands.
Although scepticism is propagating slowly but surely, the hedgefonds' glorified tactics seem pretty effective. They go to work during a currency's deflation, stabilising the exchange rate and with complicated financial structures alleviate banks of high-risk investments, allowing the latter to safely continue with handing out credits and loans to all Toms, Dicks, and Harrys. This supposedly drives consumerism and business and lowers unemployment. Yea, sure.
In the end hedgefonds are nothing but forms of immediate gratification (a symptom of the present era) or even ticking time-bombs that may still set off a catastrophic chain reaction (may I remind of LTCM in 1998?)
Transparency is just a necessary beginning...