If you're left wondering how banks simultaneously caused but benefited from the great recession of 2008... take note of the fact that bankers OWN Washington. Then as now. From Clinton, to Bush, even Obama (who had RECORD numbers of ex Goldman Sachs executives in the executive cabinet during his presidency).

People should be infuriated about what happened in 2008. But it seems like the wool has been pulled over the eyes of the public. As long as we have our smartphone beeping away with people liking our pictures, then never mind the disturbing truths of our reality - that wealth is being siphoned away from the public, into the hands of an increasingly small group, at a record pace.