This is something I have been concerned about for a while now cos all our best and brightest are going into this swamp of high finance. Where once those maths geeks actually tried to use there degree now advancement comes from banks and hedge funds. Thankfully there all busted now and maybe our physicists and maths people will set about doing real work and scientific research which will give real breakthroughs in science and engineering. These guys were paid in effect to come up with a formulae that would justify investment and end with a nice bonus for themselves.