In a moment of religious repentence the US Federal reserve has announced that it believes that the national and global economic crisis is due to violating the biblical injunction against lending money at interest.
Fed Chairman and newly ordained Rabbi Bernard Bernake said: "Ha Shem has declared it so. No carnal knowledge during the menstrual flow with insect, animal or human, no man shall lie with a man unless there is a woman between them, Thou shalt not kill except in Iraq, Afghanistan and on Cheney hunting excursions and the lending of money at interest is an abomination before Adonai!"
