“Tell me again what your tap was going to do.” Jeff dismisses it with the back of his hand: “I was gonna introduce a meta-tap, where every transaction made over the CME sent a point to the SEC’s operating fund.” Mutt stares at him. “A point per transaction?” “Did I say a point? Maybe it was a hundredth of a point.” “Well, even so. Suddenly the SEC has a trillion dollars it can’t identify in its operating accounts?” “It wasn’t that much. Only a few billion.” “Per day?” “Well, per hour.”
