Wall St. Tries to Put a Price on Volcker Rule – DealBook Blog – NYTimes.com.

Two points on this article.

1. Wow, the government is powerful. It might hit Goldman Sachs for $1 billion profit just to be vindictive. What about all the private equity shops that will lose investment capital? How does this trickle down to middle-market PE shops such as Audax, which invest in America’s smaller and growing companies? I wonder what the positive and negative ramifications of this will be for certain small businesses. Maybe not so much, if the big banks really only invest in the huge private equity funds like BarCap and Bain Capital.

2. I’m actually interested in these topics now. What.