I've been hearing all of this chatter about the sub-prime financial fiasco... easy housing loans given out to people without money down and a risky ability to pay back and it stirred a lot of thoughts that tend to get filtered out in the background...

Basically, what if this financial crap game is really part of a larger overall trend?

In comes Scott Thill with this Thilling (forgive the pun) essay on the hyper-reality of the modern American financial system. One that increasingly looks more like 1929. He argues that more than a few folks think history is due for repeating.