Totally non-biking Q - about the economy!

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That was one theory that my husband and I came up with - but it just seems like there couldn't possibly be enough of the little people making a bit of money to put a bunch huge investment banks in serious financial trouble could there? Maybe there could be.

Maybe I'm just expecting that some of the scammers have to have run away with the loot.... but I know that many of the middle men who were packaging the bad loans and reselling them were so leveraged themselves that even though they were making money hand over fist for a while, even they lost their shirts when the whole bubble collapsed. Maybe some were smart enough to get out before it happened.

I suppose I've been imagining is some unnoticed shadowy figure in the background counting the cash they made off of this whole mess and chuckling at the state that these big companies managed to get themselves into because they didn't do their homework....

Of course I was joking around and said to my husband that our government probably engineered the whole thing to get China to invest all their money and then crashed it all on purpose to bring the Chinese economy down.... I was totally joking, but he said that someone has already put forward that conspiracy theory.......