Agree big banks, Fed and I would add govt. are all in bed together.

Look at the revolving door between govt. officials and members of the TBTF banks. It truly is a vampire squid tentacles everywhere.

You see it on the biz side too. Lets take a pharmaceutical co. Some company develops something, they research and do trials and deem it's safe. They take someone from the co. familiar with the product and research and get them installed in an oversight or regulatory agency and they essentially approve their own research.

Is that true oversight or independent validation of claims ?  No it's buying approval or passage of legislation that helps their product bypass the normal safety and due diligence that is supposed to be in place to protect everyone.  

I know you can't scare all your customers to death with what we are discussing.  Quite frankly it is out of the realm of their concerns or even knowing what is going on. I find it shocking how few people understand what is going on and their eyes just glass over when you try to explain it to them. Maybe ignorance is bliss for them but that is also how terrible evil comes to power throughout history as the people ignore the signs and become pacified with distractions.

So how do we make people aware of what is really going on ?