The title is a starting admission by the folks on Wall st, that they see a mandate made into law by the US government as bieng 'defiant', which by definition,is

The title is a starting admission by the folks on Wall st, that they see a mandate made into law by the US government as bieng 'defiant', which by definition,is that you can only 'defy' your superiors, is one of those little slips that tells the whole story.