You can pick selective events that occur in any set of organisations and then use that to extrapolate that they and everyone who works in those industries is defined by those events. Doesn't make it so.
Take another set of organisations that have garner much negative press of late, churches, judging by the press you would think everyone who works in churches are either pedophiles or covering for pedophiles. This ignores the extensive not for profit work they do in the welfare sector. In my country (Australia) the welfare sector would collapse under the weight of demand if weren't for churches the money and volunteer workers that they deliver.
The crash in the housing market wasn't caused by bankers, it was created by everyday people overpaying for houses. The lending practices that encouraged this were an initiative of the US government to get people into their own houses.
BTW the person who I heard predicting that it would all go pear shaped (and actually gave a specific date) was - wait for it - a banker!
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