Long-time Los Angeles Times columnist and Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer presents a controversial thesis about the great financial meltdown: the crash, widely regarded as a result of extraordinary circumstances, is, at its heart, an old-fashioned swindle. As a veteran reporter with exclusive access to whistle blowers, Scheer reveals how the architects of our financial calamity colluded in the corruption of our economic system, and how the clandestine business of business as usual continues after the meltdown.