The little piglets have interests in common, Amos. In the hallowed halls of high finance that is all that is needed to bring the little piglets together to arrange things in a way that is most beneficial for them.

If the largest banks and corporate entities wanted to increase their profits by fixing prices, forming monopolies, and shaping public legislation, don't you think they would? Of course they would. And they have done so. And it's been happening for a very long time.

You speak of the piglets "being herded"? My good man, THEY are the shepherds and farmers in charge of the flock. The pigs are the bosses. Just like in "Animal Farm. The general public is who is being herded. On voting day the sheep troupe out dutifully to the polls and rubber stamp the foreordained result that the pigs have crafted, and it's strictly cosmetic.