The truth will make some of us free. Savvy businessmen with their financial products and financial innovations brought the world economy to the brink of collapse. Closing tax havens and shadow banking, redistribution from top to bottom and food security would help revive trust and the social contract. The crisis is a chance to abandon the myths of private vices becoming public virtues, corporate beneficence, nature as a free good, external and sink and the poor as a problem to be made invisible.