You are wrong when you say WAMU was " not into the mortgage thing". They were the largest mortgage originating thrift in the nation for years. They specialized in Alt A mortgage programs which have very high default rates. I worked in the mortgage finance industry for 40 years and I can tell you nobody is making any profit on the portion of their mortgage portfolios originated in 2005 thru 2007. Where you see a "crime spree", I see a panic driven set of decisions by the regulators to effect the most expedient transaction they could put together in a time of unprecedented financial stress. Again, I lost big as a result of their actions. I don't like it, I can't do anything about it, but I don't believe all the conspiracy arguments. This is not "liberal COA drivil", as you put it. I am a political conservative, I just don't agree with you.