Plenty of them already know far more than we ever will. They simply pretend not to, so as to avoid being burned at the stake when all hell breaks loose, and lynch mobs come looking for bankers and elected officials.
trent13, it IS that bad - and much worse. Bernanke does not reveal, even to Congress in a public address, the truly fatal and incomprehensible nature of the malady. To do so would be ѕυιcιdє, for he would be immediately destroyed by a justifiably angry populace.