If you’re having trouble understanding how highly paid chief executives and highly paid politicians could let something like the current financial crisis occur I guess it can all be summed up in one word – greed. In fact it was more than just greed – it was something that was built in to the system and remains there even now.

Sadly that greed may never go away while small business and ordinary people around the world are forced to bail out the big end of town.

How did those greedy people do it? It’s a long read but The End of Wall Street’s Boom explains it all in detail.