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Christopher Herman wrote:

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In relation to the idea that the financial crisis was planned by the people seeking a "new world order":

The fact of the matter is that most economists do not even seem to understand economics very well.  Prominent figures that are often looked to such as Paul Krugman are often muddled in their thinking.  If apparently educated economists cannot express matters clearly, how well can we expect politicians, especially considering that the level of rhetorical discourse among politicians is at a very poor level, most likely reflect the low literacy of the population in general?  Who would have had the smarts to conspire such a crisis?

Without trying to explain it in detail, it seems to me that the cause of the crisis was a combination of intersecting factors, with Goldman Sachs in the end jockeying for position to rise to the top in the aftermath. The mortgage issue, which was driven by the domestic political interests of the Democrats, intersected with Federal Reserve policy, which was qualified by the respective perspectives of Greenspan and Bernanke and the monetary policies which followed from that, and was complicated by the speculative methodology of investment bankers, which was then qualified by the respective regulatory, fiscal, and monetary of all the nations involved in the subprime loan nexus. 

All these intersecting factors were too complicated to be preplanned.  This is not to dismiss the significance of such gatherings as the Bilderberg meetings, but isn't the purpose of that meeting to sort differences among the elite?  My impression is that such differences are not inevitably concluded at the end of every year's meeting, but may carry over into several years, or on a long term basis, coupled with the possible fact that the purposes of the meeting are not as clear and apparent to everyone who attends.