I'm going to agree with JOELGLAINE. It's not a conspiracy but an ideology that caused this mess. Unregulated capitalism is an ideology that both the so called left and the right have embraced unconditionally. I read an article recently that blamed the Clinton administration for this mess and then I read an article that blamed the republican party and Bush. Both of these articles made a lot of sense to me. But I think the whole western world embraced this ideology blindly (save maybe for France). It's an ideology that says that unregulated capitalism will somehow, magically make everything OK. A system based on  Greed will somehow benefit everyone? In my country we have a  plethora of political parties and they All tried to sell us this insanity.  Some of them still believe in it. It's insane.  The political discource is the same everywhere in the western worlds. That's my impression. Hopefully once the dust settles in America, the rest of the world will think hard about what to do next. Maybe it's time not to follow a suicidal idelogy to the bitter end.

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