Surveying the world's financial chaos, my colleague Robert J. Samuelson declared last week that "capitalism's most dangerous enemies are capitalists." This is the truth, but not the whole truth: There are constructive capitalists as well as dangerous ones. If election-year pressure for a clampdown on Wall Street starts rising, it will be vital not to lump the whole financial world together. A policy response has to distinguish between stabilizing players and destabilizing ones.<br clear="all"/><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=331123245798" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/opinion/columns;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=331123245798" border="0" vspace="5"><p><a href="http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~a/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401702_xmla=fPEfr4"><img src="http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~a/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401702_xmli=fPEfr4" border="0"><img src="http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/linkset/2005/03/24/LI2005032401702_xml/~4/246930020" height="1" />
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