The recent US financial crisis is always and everywhere founded in regulatory capture, dissembling, influence peddling, and fraud.
"You who make wicked judgements, who write oppressive laws to deprive the vulnerable of justice and rob the poor of their rights, so that widows may be your victims and orphans your prey — what will you do on the day of reckoning, when the consequences of judgement come upon you? To whom will you run for protection, and where will you hide your riches?"
Isaiah 10:1-3