Witness the continued downfall of major US money-lenders through my favorite news-spots online tickers,  I have begun to realize what a mystery this business of banking really is. Billions of dollars have been lost – How? Where on earth did such a large amount of money disappear to so quickly? I realize the answer to this involves a complex web of transactions in which money is collect from some and given to others and somewhere within the process others still make (or at least used to make) a profit somewhere along the way. So when billions of dollars have been lost I am a bit baffled that the world keeps on turning with the only immediate impact being bad days on Wall Street. Naive – yes, very. I would add that I am also earning a low enough income that if it weren’t for the media’s relentless coverage I would not know that billions of dollars have disappeared spurring a national ecomonic crisis or sorts because such a loss doesn’t seem to effect my daily life in any significant manner – which I can appreciate. However, I find it hard to imagine how the loss of such great sums of money can be unnoticeable by anyone. A mystery indeed.