I took this week off from work to spend time with our newborn, which has afforded me a chance to follow the financial news skipping across my television and computer screens. I won’t pretend to know everything that happened on Wall Street this week, but one thing is for sure: we’re in a new chapter in the history of America’s financial markets.

The Masters of the Universe who called the shots  at Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and Bear Stearns are not as divine as they had people believe.

We’ll see how this plays out.