graydon carter editor of vanity fair may have summed it up best when he wrote it can fairly be said that the chain of catastrophic bets made over the past decade by a few hundred bankers may will turn out to be the greatest nonviolent crime against humanity in history they brought the world's economy to its knees last tens of millions of people their jobs and homes and trashed the retirement plans of a generation and they could drive an estimated two hundred million people worldwide into dire poverty and know the words never before have so few done so much. to so many and when experts estimate the total money lost may reach a hundred ninety six point seven trillion dollars and that could be low like millions of americans i've lost thousands of dollars in retirement funds and i haven't had as bad as many it's not just about them it's about me too i have a stake in it and like millions of angry about the way our economy whistle records . to help with our investigation we spoke with convicted white collar criminal sam and talked to white collar criminal hostile because for those documents w