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Before we go any further, which definition are you using for usury? Charging interest, or charging abusive interest?
As I understand it, the 2008 financial crisis wasn't caused by abusive interest, but by the banks giving loans (especially home loans) to people who had no chance of paying the back. Specifically, it was a type of mortgage called "variable rate."
With a variable rate mortgage, you borrow money to buy a house at, say, 1.9% (an excellent rate for the borrower). Such a loan can be reassessed once each year and the rate can either be increased or decreased by no more than 1%, with a maximum increase or decrease of 5% for the life of the loan.
What happened in 2008, according to my memory, was something called the housing bubble. Everybody was borrowing money at super-low rates, and banks would hand out money like candy. Then, for reasons I forget, US corporations began laying off American workers. This meant that people could no longer make their house payments, and banks foreclosed. This, in turn, meant that the banks owned vacant houses that no one could afford to buy.
Charging interest on a loan is usury and is abusive, when i use a word, it'll obviously be the Islamic definition since i've accepted Islam as the truth from God....
The loans like candy before the 2008 crash was an effort to stall the crash that began to happen in George W Bush's first term, he managed to use the staged 9/11 false flag to begin a huge spending spree....obvious to those who care to look at graphs......
when that spending spree slowed, workers were obviously going to be laid off because the market had been on steroids, and since public opinion for the wars were down and war spending was slowing, fake money creation was also slowing, the ability of people to pay interest on money that didn't exist was disappearing and the ability to make new loans was drying up, a crash began to take place, so another fake money creation and spending spree began, the kaafir economy is now teetering and reaching a tipping point, please don't let them fool you into blaming jihadis and immigrants this time, they're staging the theatre to divert the blame for the upcoming crash.
Even more ironic is the fact that they've outsourced the inflation by exporting multiple trillions of dollars so it's not as visible as it would have been, all it takes is a huge drop in the dollar and when the nations of the world begin to dump dollars and buy grain, america will not be able to repay in goods even if you turn it upside down and squeeze it dry.
i fear to think or speak of what follows. The final prophet pbuh advised us to blow spit lightly three times and turn the other way if we see a nightmare......
Sahih Muslim 6896
Abu Bakra reported Allaah's Messenger (sallAllaahu alayhi wa sallam) as saying: There would soon be turmoil. Behold! there would be turmoil in which the one who would be seated would be better than one who would stand and the one who would stand would be better than one who would run. Behold! when the turmoil comes or it appears, the one who has camel should stick to his camel and he who has sheep or goat should stick to his sheep and goat and he who has land should stick to the land.
A person said: 'Allaah's Messenger, what is your opinion about one who has neither camel nor sheep nor land?
Thereupon, he said: He should take hold of his sword and beat its edge with the help of stone and then try to find a way of escape. O Allaah, I have conveyed (Thy Message) ; O Allaah, I have conveyed (Thy Message) ; O Allaah, I have conveyed (Thy Message).
A person said: Allaah's Messenger, what is your opinion it I am drawn to a rank in spite of myself, or in one of the groups and made to march and a man strikes with his sword or there comes an arrow and kills me? Thereupon he said: He will bear the punishment of his sin and that of yours and he would be one amongst the denizens of Hell.
http://www.sahihmuslim.com/sps/smm/sahihmuslim.cfm?scn=dspchaptersfull&BookID=41&ChapterID=1198
If there are still loans out there and one has a good credit rating....land and cattle aren't too bad of an idea when you consider the flipside in a towerblock without electricity, water or lifts, and rioting beneath.
And only God knows the unseen, just an option to keep in mind.