""Well Don, I think you are wonderfully correct!...Don't leave out the fact that the Bank of London was/is complicit as well.""

It's the Bank of England Goofus, and if you knew anything about it, you would know that it was the investment side of the commercial banks which were involved.

Whatever, it was the piratical stupidity of the largest US banks which started the dominoes falling.

Pehaps, if the US had a central bank, that might not have happened.

Don T.