2008 Flying Monkeys of the FIRE Economy Award

``Some day when the FIRE Economy no longer dominates our political system, media, and corporate life, and the system of economic rent extraction that weighs down on our economy is lifted, we will recall ads for complex mortgages on TV and heaps of direct mail credit card offers the way we do cigarette ads from the dark ages when Big Tobacco controlled Congress and covered the ad budget for ABC, NBC, and CBS.''