Lucy Berrington and Jeff Onore: The Rolling Stones are to caught up in the global financial crisis

Lucy Berrington and Jeff Onore In all the shouting about who's to blame for the financial meltdown – Hank Paulson, derivatives traders, fat cat CEOs, John McCain (if you're Barack Obama), Obama (if you're McCain) – we are not hearing a single thing about the Rolling Stones. So they're a rock band. They are not solely or even primarily culpable. But they are involved. When the Stones accepted sponsorship for their 2005 US tour from AmeriQuest, one of the country's largest sub-prime mortgage lenders, they joined the effort that moved millions of people toward financial and personal ruin, a disaster underlying the ongoing national/global/intergalactic credit crisis. Among their slogans: "AmeriQuest: Not your average mortgage company. Rolling Stones? Not your average garage band." That AmeriQuest wasn't the average mortgage... [read full story]