No chance at ALL of this happening. If *you* were an investment banker, would *you* want to be subject to the whims of a fickle market or make bets that can't fail b/c the government knows chaos will ensue if you do?
I'm sorry, but this is 4 years too late. In 2004, where were the voices who were saying that being stalwart but fact-averse was a problem? Sorry, that would make you "biased" in the new definition of journalism.
But sadly it seems like America, the so-called land of the free, has got some issues about people chaining male prostitutes to their walls and vaguely insulting them for a bit. Just ask Boy George.