The Greek financial crisis reflects complicity between profit-hungry northern-European lenders and reckless southern borrowers.
What with the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the Bernie Madoff scandal, you would have thought New Yorkers might have been willing to give house room to a play that points out our complicity in financial bubbles, and which argues that lessons have still to be learned.
As to Iran's "suspect secret nuclear weapons programs," indications of North Korean, Chinese, and Russian complicity (and financial opportunism) have not radiated high-level alarm at the United Nations.
That simply underscores their shortsighted greed and complicity in the financial crisis.
Congress has — belatedly and showily — gone after the leaders of banks, auto companies and insurance companies for their complicity in the financial crisis.
"Germany is a big part of the problem" of trade imbalance, the newspaper wrote, describing Mrs. Merkel's mission in Pittsburgh as wanting to make sure "there was no discussion of Germany's complicity in the financial crisis".
Only Mr Buffett could get away with defending Moody's against congressional accusations over the rating agencies' complicity in the financial crisis, when he had been a big shareholder in Moody's at the time, and retain his reputation as a straight-shooter.
"The tolerance or even the complicity of several financial companies that collaborated with Parmalat allowed for the artificial survival of a company in the stock market that had been ailing for a long time, while being perceived by small investors as solid and reliable," a financial consultant, Stefania Chiaruttini, wrote in the report filed Tuesday in the Milan court.
THE story of the downfall of Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) in Japan contains many morals: the hubristic arrogance of a Wall Street investment bank, the routine deceits practised by Japanese businessmen, and the complicity of Japan's financial regulators, to name but three.
