>> Zero interest rate
> This was caused by the government forcing the banks to make loans to people who had no chance or in many case even intent of paying them back
No it wasn’t, that was just the marginal stuff. It was caused by reckless easy money policies combined with wall-to-wall fraud. Look up Countrywide, Linda Green, robosigning, mortage-backed-securities fraud, and so on.
>> Zero interest rate
> This is set by the Feds
The Federal Reserve is OWNED (actually, not just metaphorically) by the Wall Street banks. It acts on behalf of those banks.
>>Purchased our representation in government away from us
>Come on now. EVERY industry does this.
Not to the extent that Wall Street does it. Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, and Citibank, along with a host of other large banks, are top sources of donations to almost every legislator on the federal level.
I’m afraid I have the situation assessed accurately; I should know, as I’ve been studying it with fascination for years. The government doesn’t exist in a bubble, it answers to sources of large donations, and there is no bigger such source than the big banks.
We agree on the corruption, we just don’t agree on the source of it.