And there seems no therapy or cure for this intense post traumatic stress syndrome to finance capitalism.

FORBES: The Battered Investment Class Has No Confidence in Markets, Companies, Banks, Governments

Finance capitalism has created a finance aristocracy totally separated from the commonweal, with no real customers and no social attachments to country or human being.

ECONOMIST: A voice of dissent

But his finance minister, Giulio Tremonti, has become increasingly sceptical of modern capitalism.

ECONOMIST: The Italian crisis

This will be a big test for the Batista brothers and for Brazil's tropical brand of capitalism, which mixes family control with traded stock, and finance from state-run banks with foreign acquisitions.

ECONOMIST: A Brazilian livestock firm has grown to prize-winning size