and ✡Der Spiegel✡ is not excepted from respecting those taboos

Gee, I wonder why.

“Mon­ey rules the world… and who rules the money?” was the bold headline across the front cover. They may not have given any definitive answers—certain power structures are taboo, and Der Spiegel is not excepted from respecting those taboos—but they did pose some tough, penetrating questions. “How is it that nation states lend banks money, only to become indebted to the very same banks?”—“How can it be that a single financial market is ten times bigger than the economic output of the entire world?”—“Is it true, as the politicians allege, that ‘the markets’ were speculating with the European economy at a whim?”—and “Why have elected governments been unable to control the power of financial markets—in short, who owns the world, who controls the money?”

All very good questions.