What is really going on is that the uberwealthy elite (.01%) have built their empires on exploiting third world countries via central bank douchbaggery and IMF corruption. (to elaborate on that point alone is a thesis paper waiting to happen)<p>Now that all the third worlds have been exploited into the ground, and the cannibals have no new prey, they are turning inward on their own populations, and are already in the process of extracting wealth from the first world countries.<p>Where are they extracting it from? The upper-middle-class wannabe wealthy. When all the &quot;rich&quot; people in your neighbourhood are actually upside down in everything because they jumped into the debt based system, they only seem wealthy. When the banks start calling dues, stuff will start collapsing (as can be seen in my area of the Texas oil boom.) When stuff collapses, it&#x27;s the perfect opportunity for the big players to buy up assets for pennies on the dollar.<p>As for investing, it&#x27;s the same thing. You have huge players who have the ability to do things like spike&#x2F;brown LIBOR and other super-shady backroom stuff that manipulates the market, all the while increases in cyber-security of the trading platforms is going to muscle out all the hungry investor startups trying to do the same thing. The entire stock market system is a huge ponzi scheme, but instead of crashing down, the crashes are created and used as huge pivot points to profit for those in the know.<p>I&#x27;ve said it before, and I&#x27;ll say it again:<p>Bankers are the true terrorists.