This fully planned economic event (the Great Recession, and even the stock market bubble, IMO) …
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If you believe that “nobody saw it coming” or that people in high levels of the finance industry and government didn’t know *exactly* how things would end up, you are incredibly naive. There is plenty of evidence showing how people who were trying to warn regulators and executive-level decision makers about the dangers of what was happening (both WRT the stock market bubble and the housing bubble) were silenced and tossed from their positions.
The wealthy/powerful decide how laws and our economy work; they pick the winners and losers and they design the system to make things happen in particular ways. The economic crisis made them even wealthier and more powerful. Coincidence? Not a chance.
Learn to connect the dots. It’s all right there before your eyes.