Carney game antics, nothing more, nothing less.
The financiers will not back off until they bring the real economy to exhaustion and failure. Or someone stops them.
"Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or for ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy."
Louis Brandeis, Olmstead v. United States, 1928