What’s worse than having Wall Street kingpins like Bernanke and Geithner in charge of America’s economic future? China taking the reins, that’s what.

While Washington’s all-powerful ego may have our leaders believe they still control our fiscal fate, they lost that power long ago. Now, the Fed and the Treasury may dictate who gets what, but China decides how much and when.

By Andrew Snyder, TodaysFinancialNews.com

Baltimore — (TFN): Maybe it is time we took a lesson from the French. Not the new-age work-fearing, café-going French, but the old-school, take-back-the-country kind of citizens alive during the French Revolution. Those folks knew how to stand up for themselves.

History buffs will be quick to point out the similarities of late-18th century France and modern America. There was a financial meltdown, runaway government spending and a constituency fed up with aristocratic fiscal shenanigans.

Baltimore (TFN): Welcome to Notes version 2.0. As Will moves on to his next successful endeavor at the family office, I could not be more pleased and nervous to be at the helm. After all, he set the bar high.