Profits.  They can be made by having a successful company, or the same name, profits, is given when funds are removed from a higher valued stock, and used to purchase a lower valued one. This is despite any trend downwards.
These so-called 'captains of industry' and their ilk know how to remove funds and place those same funds into personal care, this at the expense of the place where the funds came from.
They also know how to move money to an extent that it drives prices up or down, up so they can take it away, and down so they can buy to enable future removal.

With perhaps the biggest example of stupidity I have ever known, Wall Street people are complaining about the US government taking control of the economic situation.

Unbelievable. Like a child who steals regularly from it's mothers purse, they are complaining because the purse is going to be locked away, with no consideration for the fact that if the purse, and the stealing, continue, there will be no purse, no room where it is, no house where that room is, etc.

This is living proof that the people at the top of the capitalist ladder are so self-serving that they prefer the whole system to fail rather than risk losing control over the money made by the efforts of others, while they themselves have probably never done a fair days work in their lives. Lives, by the way, that have probably been spent figuring out how to get those below them to work harder.
These are the same type of people as the economists who have determined that people who do not work to make products or services, or consume products and services, such as, for instance, an Ethiopian refugee, are of no use to the world, and therefore should not be considered.

What goes around, comes around, and as one of the presidential candidates mentioned, they have treated Wall Street as if it is a casino. Well, their luck just ran out, time to pay the piper. Of course, they can always do what the rest of society does - GO OUT AND GET A JOB!

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