Pam Martens gives an unvarnished take on how the money system got into the mess it is into, starting not with the origins of the Federal Reserve, but only the current means to the recession that is barrelling down the tracks. Found in the financial sections 2 of the news media is the information that last week Mr. Greenspan joined the payroll of the hedge fund Paulson & Company, which last year made $15 billion in profits betting that poor people’s homes would be foreclosed on while using the unregulated over-the-counter contracts that Mr. Greenspan assisted in making possible.