This is a podcast from October 2008 discussing the fact that the financial crises and recession was planned. The point? To transfer trillions of dollars of public funds into private hands. And why do that? Well, that's anybody's guess but if you ask me, that kind of money is useful primarily to engage in warfare. I guess we'll have to see. While you are waiting, you may want to have a look at my Rocket Scientists Guide to Money and the Economy: Accumulation and Debt  (http://www.michaelsharp.org/ebooks/rocketguide.pdf) for an insider look at the economic system and the direction that "those with power" seem to be moving us.