OK, this one ain't PC, but think through the chain of events and unintended consequences of 9/11:
* Osama bin Laden's crew takes down the World Trade Center - check
* Greenspan panics and stupidly takes nominal interest rates down to 1% - check
* Housing market goes nuts with free money pouring out of the banks - check
* Greenspan and Bernanke stupidly leave interest rates way too low for way too long - check
* Housing and mortgage fraud go nuts while unregulated REIC spins out of control - check
* Consumers go on a spending and debt binge the likes of which have never seen before - check
* Housing Ponzi Scheme (finally) ends with millions left holding the bag, millions to go unemployed and trillions of dollars of wealth to vanish - check
* Osama bin Laden laughing in a cave - ???
