Shortly after I posted the cartoon in the previous post Handy comparison chart: Janet Yellen vs. Larry Summers, I read the letters to editor in The Boston Globe.

The letters were Comparison of Bulger, Summers was insensitive, not clever and Cartoon crossed the line.

Here is the cartoon in question:

The sad part of it is that these letter writers do not understand how appropriate the cartoon is. If you measure the total pain inflicted on the world, Larry Summers may have Whitey Bulger beat by orders of magnitude. In our society we don’t seem to understand the damage white collar crime does.

What does the press have to do to get people to see the problem? Neither serious articles nor cartoons seem to be reaching people.