Senior Eurocrats argue that public confidence in free markets has been shattered by the perception (carefully stoked by some politicians) that the crash is, in essence, a crisis of Anglo-Saxon financial capitalism.
The Justice Department, with the help of our law enforcement partners, is changing the perception that these crimes are risk-free with enforcement actions like the one announced today.
The fact that the Mets remained virtually irrelevant on the free-agent market this off-season didn't help to shake the perception that the team can't afford to spend.