I don't subscribe to often conspiracy theories. On area where there have been conspiracies is in financial crisis. George Soros has engineered a few of these, as is well known. I think that there are signs of conspiracy in the current financial meltdown. Of course it may be that several different groups with different agenda's took advantage of the situation. Senator Schumer started the ball rolling, and should have been prosecuted. So many bad things happened to Bush and the Republicans in the second half of 2008 that it is unlikely to have been a coincidence. (As Machiavelli said, when a lot of bad things start happening to you suddenly, it is not a coincidence, it is the action of your enemy. Democrats have demonstrated that they are willing to damage the country as a whole for domestic political advantage, so they certainly would have no moral objection to orchestrating what happened, whether they did it or not. Here are some thoughts on this from 'Flopping Aces;'

http://www.floppingaces.net/2009/02/23/a-contrived-crisis-you-decide-reader-post/#more-17307