America has had a long love affair with the bankrobber...scorn of the establishment, hero to the poor and disenfranchised.  Americans generally respect somebody who doesn't take it lying down....and say what you will about a bankrobber, but they ain't taking it lying down, they're fighting fire with fire.

Come on, our system, built upon the banking system developed way back in 1913 on Jekyll Island by "THE RICH' have been in motion for the last century robbing the middle and lower class via the American economic system and its leadership, through the treasury, the Federal Reserve, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and a huge host of little reported quasi government institutions, Freddie Mac, Sally May, Jennie Mae, HUD...  This all makes me laugh yet it isn't funny especially when one understands the American system explicitly the president selects the heads to lead these groups, as was Bush the decider, all now blamed on Obama and not reported by our insane media fairly because we the people now understand with this transparency on the Internet.  

Domestic and International media have brought everyone to this point. There is and has been deliberate opacity in delivering the news which is not telling the truth on its surface. It is because of a political power struggle the rich are behind all of it. Its obvious big money people are in deliberate disarray and confusion with any association with Bush and Company for the past eight years. Leading to double cross money deals becuase of War crimes and profiteering are bulging out all over the system and the media especially FOX, CNN, and MSNBC are complicit in total denial of it all while being embedded in it.

Please ladies and gentlemen of America this notion of unintended consequences has stayed the course or we should say has run its course. From my view most of the quality control in these financial dealings had "FIXED THE DATA" here most institutions especially the government issues loads of information on statistics. Heaven knows the pile junk the Bush system generated that needs to be untangled. Regulation should have good quality control other wise we would not need over sight. That simple.

To cut through a lot of technical jargon standard deviation shows the "ERROR" involved. This error one could think as the consequence percentage. Now Wall Street saying no one saw this coming? The pirates of Jekyll Island, the Federal Reserve, they,  did too know,  and do what they do best profiteer to "buy out or off" who ever they need to keep the system going. The perfect Ponzi scheme, Government run and paid for by the electorate. As I said before the Federal Reserve System is essentially wrong, secret, and unconstitutional it should be opened up to see what it really is. A quasi government organization that is politically biased domestically and internationally owned by the unknown rich people all while kept secret, worse a law where the electorate can not audit the books and look at the paper trail? This has prevented a free market for almost a century.

  I know that many people have unmet financial needs (or at least very strong wants) even when the general  economy is strong.

 I know some people would nver steal regardless of their needs or wants.

 I know some people will steal even when they don't need to and some even will steal things they don't particularly want and cannot readily convert to something they do want.

  I know a huge number of crimes either have no profit component or the profit is taken in the form of a portion of the  drugs and this type of profit while perhaps partially related to  ability to pay is also largely related to ability to obtain.

  Taken altogether, I think there is a small sub-group of people who both have flexible scruples about stealing and are taken across their personal threshhold for stealing when the economy worsens.

  I'd hazard a guess that sub-group is much smaller than either those who would steal regardless or those who would never steal.