The scam has been going on for about 30 years. Salomon bros bank started securitizing mortgages and creating more and more complicated financial instruments. Over the years a lot of people have made a lot of money in banking out of this etc. In recent years in America there have been mortgages taken out on property in massively inflated prices. These mortgages have been given to all and sundry even people who cannot afford them. Initially the US banks traded these instruments with each other. However soon the European banks started to buy these instruments. Each time there is a sale or purchase they make a small amount percentage wise. Few even on the biggest banks boards understood the real risk exposure on these. I thought it was classic when under questioning by American lawmakers the former chief of Lehman bros stated it was wrong that he had made $500 million in the last 4 years it was $350 million or some ridiculous statement like that. He didn’t seem to grasp the reality that he didn’t make this vulgar amount of money in a fair way. Basically these bankers were gambling when their gambles came off they earned the money so they deserved the bonus and when they lost money it was the banks loss not theirs. These bankers have over 30 years taken out billions out of the system. Clearly the system is a failure if it allows this. The western governments and politicos have taken this systemic failure and realized that they can’t crow anymore about their capitalist system being better than for example communism so they have let the boat out and given moneys that they don’t have to keep the banks from going bankrupt. (in reality true capitalism should have allowed some banks to go bankrupt but west could not afford even this). They then have to find some money for this from somewhere. So they start tightening their fiscal policies and taxing the people. Allow a certain amount of inflation so Joe averages savings get eroded. They are and will also have to make cuts in their defense budgets. Which is all very good because they have had an unfair stranglehold on the worlds resourses. Yes now the public are coming onto the streets in the UK in turmoil. I am sure there are some opportunist thieves and what not there but the fuse is that capitalism is a failure just as much as communism. I am no fanatic but anyone now any code or religion that is a way of life that may replace the communist or capitalism systems? Islam I would suggest. I am no expert on Islam but I do know that we are supposed to pay zakat i.e. a welfare system. Maybe someone out there can tell us why Islam would be a good replacement for these systems in detail. I also realize that Pakistan is far from an Islamic republic and the British welfare system in years gone by been nearer to the Islamic model