Ironically, the world's most overleveraged bank was just levied a $14 billion fine by the U.S. DOJ over mortgage malfeasance stemming from 2008. However, they refuse to pay, since they don't have $14 billion...
The globalized economy is a colossal Ponzi Scheme in which the vast majority survive on the bread crumbs falling off the table. The possibility of 7 billion people achieving a consumption-oriented lifestyle is zero, so the World Bank conveniently set the poverty line at $1.25/day to legalize global slavery. As long as someone else's children are doing the suffering, it's "all good". Post-2008, this illusion was extended merely by plundering all future generations.