By Shah Gilani
Contributing Editor
Money Morning

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While the entire U.S. housing market was on the verge of collapse and corporate America was being systemically undermined, regulators purposely looked the other way.

Why would they do this?

The truth is that U.S. regulators believed the American …

While the entire U.S. housing market was on the verge of collapse and corporate America was being systemically undermined, regulators purposely looked the other way.  Why would they do this?

The truth is that U.S. regulators believed the American public couldn’t handle the truth that what had been allowed to happen, on their watch, was actually happening.

Unfortunately, we now face the same situation with credit default swaps, a derivative security that has the ability to destroy otherwise healthy companies with the virulence of a full-blown plague.

Until the American public understands this, and forces the government to take action, the odds of a repeat performance of what we refer to as the global financial crisis remain very high.

This is not an “Origin of the Species” seminal epic. Rather, it is a short story about the failure of evolutionists to recognize that, while creationism actually starts somewhere, it is actually the failure of

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Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc. (MMC) announced first-quarter adjusted earnings of 40 cents per share, which missed the consensus by 3 cents.

Earnings for the quarter came in a penny shy of last year's profit of 41 cents per share.

However, Marsh & McLennan's share price is up over 6% today.

The company's risk and insurance services, consulting and risk consulting and technology businesses saw revenue declines during the quarter, as total sales declined 13% from last year to $2.63 billion.

The consensus for the current year has dropped to $1.56 from $1.59 over the past month, reflecting downward revisions by 3 of 15 covering analysts.

The Zacks #4 Rank ("Sell") is currently moving on low volume of 4.8 million shares, against the daily average of 6 million.

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