If Only Wickedness Did Get Its Reward

If Only Wickedness Did Get Its Reward!
Job 21: 1-34

Two or three years before I write, the United States and the Western world as a whole experienced a “great financial meltdown,” with a significant factor in the crisis being the way financial institutions lent money for mortgages to people who could not sustain them. Some responsibility for the crisis lay with the financial institutions that introduced irresponsible financial innovations into the process whereby investment worked, and their staff earned huge amounts of money through the fees involved in servicing mortgages. While the national and international issues raised by the meltdown affected and concerned people in general, some of the strongest feelings about the debacle were felt in connection with the senior staff of financial institutions. Virtually none of them were prosecuted, and many of them continued to draw salaries of millions of dollars per year. Meanwhile, many ordinary people lost their homes...