it is more about what's going on in this country, rooted in income inequality and illustrating how close ties between big business and government combined with disruptive technology and the lack of regulation around it can end up having major implications for the little guy. in a fascinating new investigation "the new york times" found that hard working americans, primarily immigrants, were sucked in by the promise of financial security that came from owning their own taxi medallions which acted as a license to own and operate your own cab here in new york and that's where it all went on. there was a limited number of medallions, industry leaders competed to buy them, which went from $200,000 to well over a million bucks. the plan was many who bought them were going to sell them when they retired. they took out risky loans to buy the medallions.