It seems the answers all focus on the bigger perhaps unintended picture. I'm still in the process of putting some meat on to the concept of "Financial Terrorism". But the essence of my question is: Did BofA, Citibank, WaMu, Bear Stearns et.al., engage an activity that de-stsabilized US financial markets? Did that result in actions on the part of the Fed that lowered interest rates which directly effects exchange rates? Did we the expat community suffer damages due to the actions of the banks and SIVs? And of course the answer. This is where I get lost....is there no recourse for expats?