This is of course anecdotal: I just so happen to have spoken with a practicing Italian banker (in English), practicing financial professionals from several oth

This is of course anecdotal: I just so happen to have spoken with a practicing Italian banker (in English), practicing financial professionals from several other Anglophone nations, and from Germany as well. (these conversations were friendly and not professional in nature - I was not seeking their services, should any future Treasury/IRS folks be reading this!) Never have I once - ever - heard a single one of them suggest even for a second that there is any financial/economic system as heavily regulated, asinine, filled through with bizarre rules, and just overall insane as that found in the US.