The terms crony-capitalism, klepto-capitalism, and casino-capitalism are all very descriptive of the US economic system, which has become like a bad Yakov Smirnoff joke: "In America, bank robs you!"

So what's happened to the $85 billion a month ($1 trillion a year) that Ben Bernake has pumped into the banks in the last year, during the third round of quantitative easing (QE3)? "It all got bottled up in the banks, and essentially none of it ... got lent out." Source: http://www.npr.org/2013/12/17/251796694/year-in-numbers-the-...