The most destructive financial crisis hits the world economy in 2038. Not even all carefully planned interventions by the finance elite could restart the markets and the global economy lies in shambles.
Following Months of decline, despair and chaos, politicians and economists alike lose faith in the markets and seek help in superstition. A 200m wide ring is erected above the financial district of New York, fairly balanced on three-point supports. The ring is slim in diameter and evaporates 100m³ of blessed water in the form of steam. A group of priests is exercising the ministry of absolution on the water before it is being pumped up only to descend as steam down to Wall Street and the surrounding financial district. A desperate effort to cleanse the market from its past sins and in hope that this absolution will be able to reconcile the fallout which capitalism brought upon the planet.