Recently the global financial stock market storm has shaken the world's economy. Unexpectedly, in the midst of this, the renowned French bank Société Générale committed an unprecedented and unrepeatable blunder, shocking not only France's financial sector but also shaking the economy of the global capitalist financial market system. Rogue trader Jerome Kerviel is suspected of committing the largest-scale fraudulent trading scandal in banking history, resulting in Société Générale accumulating losses of nearly 5 billion euros — a staggering figure, an astronomical sum equivalent to Algeria's entire annual national budget. This plunged Société Générale into deep crisis and became the largest fraud case in French financial history.

Clearly, under today's globalization, all transnational capitalist entities engage in the law of the jungle, devouring the world's wealth everywhere. Global finance is even more recklessly greedy, plundering and pillaging everywhere. Nearly all of today's powerful nations' banks engage in an unprecedented and unrepeatable pursuit of profit through risky ventures, like an insatiable monster. In that case, rogue trader Jerome Kerviel is a product of this system that encourages people to take high risks in pursuit of high returns, and many people harbor deep doubts about the financial market system under globalization.

For Société Générale, Jerome Kerviel is a "villain, fraudster, and terrorist," but for many French people, he is a scapegoat. His actions exposed the reckless greed of global finance in the eyes of the French. Left-wing anti-globalization activists believe he had the courage to challenge the system, making him a new hero in today's anti-globalization and anti-capitalist movements. The opposition Socialist Party's economic affairs spokesperson Sabine said that this Société Générale scandal is a symbol of the mad pursuit of money, and it has also triggered French people's wariness and fear of capitalism. Even the political right maintains vigilance toward the harsh "Anglo-Saxon" capitalism seen in the eyes of the majority of the French public.

French President Sarkozy said after the Société Générale scandal broke that the financial system had "lost sight of its purpose," and he criticized financial operations that can generate "enormous profits" or "huge losses" in a mere matter of hours.