[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

It is THIS which will eventually bring down the financial system. Financial instruments invented out of thin air on a promise to pay when things don’t go your way. Well...someone is NOT going to pay and how can you make them?

[PGalt]

The supremacy of finance capital over all other forms of capital means the predominance of the rentier and of the financial oligarchy; it means that a small number of financially “powerful” states stand out among all the rest. The extent to which this process is going on may be judged from the statistics on emissions, i.e., the issue of all kinds of securities. - Vladimir Ilyich Lenin