What’s commonly called the Fibonacci sequence is proven to exist by way of fractals in everything from human and plant DNA to the world’s financial markets. Popular television shows, such as CBS’s Numbers, regularly highlight the usefulness of the Fibonacci sequence. Fibonacci even played a star role in Dan Brown’s mega worldwide bestselling book, The Da Vinci Code, and later the film by the same name. There’s no question that Fibonacci numbers are all around us. But, why should you care …

President Obama announced the introduction of the new consumer financial protection agency, which will execute a plan for regulation reform that would improve the current “patchwork system” full of outdated regulations and lax oversight that helped lead to last year’s crisis,” and “stand up, not for big banks, not for financial firms, but for hard-working Americans.” Such changes, he says, would prevent consumers becoming victims of “predatory practices of some in the financial industry …