Quote from rubibond007:
Actually it was Clinton era Fault, he was the one who eliminated the Glass-Steagal Act in 1999 and the one who made the famous "Housing act" in 1995.
Government intervention has everything to do with this crisis, The Fed circus, Fannie Mae, Freedie Mac, Ginnie Mae, overregulated banking, insurance and auto industries and the Big government being business partners of a bunch of feudal asshole on wall street.
Since Bill Clinton, almost every single Treasury secretary have been a former Goldman Sachs employee, No wonder why every NYSE chairman since Gasso departure also used to work for GS.
Expensive oil? ask GS about the HUGE front running machine with those ETFs rollovers (by the way, they do broke those deals every single month to and do have a HUGE presence in the physical market including the vital freight market).