Capitalism FTW! The current crisis, far from being a failure of capitalism is actually a major success of capitalism. Because, despite contrary to the best efforts of some people, the market place has not been hoodwinked and is currently, of its own volition, revaluing assets inline with their true values. That isn't to say that this readjustment won't be painful, for some people it will, but that is not the fault of capitalism but the fault of people playing silly buggers.