Gods that failed

Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson on how reckless speculation of a super-rich elite has left us poorer | Business | The Guardian: "The gods of greed

They promised economic stability, order and prosperity. But instead the world's bankers have delivered chaos, debt and uncertainty - and then blamed the feeble governments that surrendered control of the global economy to them. In the first of three extracts from their new book, Larry Elliott and Dan Atkinson explain how the reckless speculation of a super-rich elite has left us all the poorer"