Diddling?

Poe once wrote a short story entitled, "Diddling: Considered as One of the Exact Sciences".

"Your diddler is minute. His operations are upon a small scale. His business is retail, for cash, or approved paper at sight. Should he ever be tempted into magnificent speculation, he then, at once, loses his distinctive features, and becomes what we term "financier".

So, here is Poe pointing out the connections between the common swindler, and our bankers and loan officers. Now, how timely is it that the thought should occur to me to think about this story right now? On the day after Jon Stewart so impaled Jim Cramer on a very related subject.

Curious how things work together in such a seemingly synchronistic way.