The big question is have we learned anything from the meltdown? Watch this and understand what happened to the entire world. I could tell you why it happened.  It is simple: You give a man a gun he can rob a bank, you give a man a bank he can rob the world. System is flawed on purpose...  It is hidden in plain sight, indeed. Who is responsible for repealing the Glass-Steagle Act? BILL CLINTON. And now his WIFE is running for president. Wow. This is all theater... You know they all work for the same people, the bankers, which is the point here, in the film.  There was not an extra 8 trillion dollars in new government debt if we would have let it crashed in 2008. The bankers would have not consolidated the banking institutions. Corruption is more rampant because we saved this ponzi scheme. 

What should have happened in 2008? A massive reset, economically, socially and morally that was a necessity... and it is still yet to happen. Tough to chew, I know, but nutritious in truth none-the-less. Detroit was a melanoma that America ignored. It's government and its society just kept proverbially sun-baking, whilst continuing to admire their tan and flexing their financial muscles in the economic mirror. Meanwhile, they're rotting from the inside.

Standard & Poors cut Russia's sovereign debt rating to the junk level BB+ on Monday, below investment grade. S&P, acting as if this were a purely business decision rather than part of a coordinated act of financial warfare, said:

"In our view, the Russian Federation's monetary policy flexibility has weakened, as have its economic growth prospects."

Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov called the downgrade

"unreasonable, as the agency didn't consider the country's anti-crisis plan, and the strong economy with its large reserves and extremely low public debt."

This "anti-crisis plan" was the subject of cabinet meetings chaired by Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev and President Vladimir Putin over the past ten days. It includes a number of incentives for economic activity, coupled with budget cuts, but also the (healthy) abandonment of some of the extreme "more drastic than Maastricht" budget deficit targets of recent years. The plan does not, however, ameliorate the suffocating effects of the Russian Central Bank's hiking of the prime interest rate to 17%.

A "Mahathir solution" of capital and exchange controls is being promoted by Putin's advisor Sergei Glazyev, along with state-guided, effectively Hamiltonian credit policies for physical reconstruction and infrastructure, but it has not been taken up at the government level.

Glazyev's Dirigist Plan for Sanctions ResponseThe Russian TV service RT quoted Paul Craig Roberts, former US Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, who identified the fact that

"S&P's decision and those of other US-based agencies are nothing but political.... The Russian debt as a percent of Russian GDP is 11 percent, which must be the lowest in the world. Per citizen, it comes to $1,645. Now let's look at the American situation. American debt as a percent of the US GDP is 105 percent — ten times larger. So, who should have their credit rating downgraded?"
RT noted that even the US has acknowledged the crimes of S&P, imposing a $77 million fine on the rating agency last week for fraud in ratings it issued in 2011, and banning it from assessing a segment of the commercial mortgage-backed securities market (CMBS) for a year.
by LaRouche PAK   https://larouchepac.com/20150128-1