Financial meltdown of 2008

One of the great ironies of the financial meltdown of 2008 - which was really more of a values meltdown - is that very few U.S. laws were actually broken. It investigates the financial crisis from a different legal perspective -that of Jewish law, using six framing principles: misleading with bad advice; deception and fraud; bribery, both outright and subtle; honest weights and measures; conflicts of interest; and transparency. Each of these is used as a lens through which to view the activities and behaviors that caused the current financial debacle and, in the process, almost totaled the global economy.