These are not merely colorful concoctions springing forth from fertile imaginations of mad scientists and pedagogues of calamity. This is a heinous attempt to create, from among the ranks of this emerging generation, a class of desensitized drones who will conform to the absurdity of a society in which nothing is held to be true, and everything is permitted. Reminiscent of the dark ages in science, where knowledge was suppressed, today it is not a question of annihilating science, but of controlling it. These are, and always have been the preconditions to control a society. From the pits of the aforementioned nexus, have sprung the seeds that were necessary predecessors to the modern-day Darwinian globalized market and cyberculture that have spawned a population on the verge of willingly surrendering that which renders them superior to apes, bacteria, and computers—their humanity.

I don't endorse this article, and the publication may be questionable, but the author articulates a distinct perspective.

I notice that the August 3 issue of EIR includes a story on the Cramer tip, Big Bank Failure Could Turn Credit Crunch Into Global Crash:

Big international banks will be left holding the bag, with hundreds of billions of dollars of unsellable junk-bond debt, because the collapse of the world credit markets promises to abruptly end the era of "leveraged takeover" scams.