What really looks broken to me in this story is the financial system. It has become an completely artificial and lunatic system that has almost nothing to do with the real - goods and services producing - economy.
Trickle down economics = financialization of capital. Those who influence the policy are beneficiaries of the financialization of capital: think of grads from elite law schools and b shools!! If there is no financialization of capital, these grads from elite law/b schools wont get fat bonus.
