Many of those stories seem to be written by people who lack even rudimentary finance knowledge.
Take this for example:
which brings in $520 million.
...This is really a story of someone finding a gem in the rough and dumb investors got hosed. That kind of price discovery and that kind of punishment for stupidity is exactly what you need in a free market, to avoid bubbles, and to reward intelligent investing.
If we had more cases like that, we would have waded out dumb investors and we would not have had financial crisis. So those people you are trying to crucify are exactly the people you need to have...
Everyone is entitled to an opinion I guess, even those who believe in the Illuminati and other frogshit.
For a start, I would not call Anchorage "intelligent investors". They are more like a "pack of greedy parasites". 3,000 decent and honest workers are losing their jobs. Where is the evidence Anchorage cares one bit about the Dick Smith workers?
For a healthy society to function and prosper there has to be goodwill, altruism, fair play, helping ones neighbour out, doing your fair share and paying your fair share, honesty, respect for others, compassion, volunteering and charity work; as well as the desire to enrich the lives for all. I didn't see any of those traits in the "successful" GFC bankers, Wall Street snake oil salesmen and mortgage scammers. The US government used money it effectively stole from taxpayers to prop up these parasites and given them massive bonuses.
I suggest you do some research on a US company called Lincoln Electric. A remarkable company that has stood the test of time.
http://www.lincolnelectric.com/en-au/company/Pages/company-history.aspx. It it were driven by greedy investors and private equity and your brand of capitalism, it would have long gone.
In Iceland the entire country was left to go bankrupt. Many of its banking heads and parasites went to jail and rightly so. Now its economy is greatly improving, especially in the high tech industry and tourism. Not so the USA. It should have been left to go bankrupt so it could heal. Unfortunately it still has a big hangover...
http://www.usdebtclock.org/Free market capitalism is destined to fail because of human trait of greed. The same reason why communism has failed miserably.... greed by a few hypocrites who prosper on the sweat of those they control.