Rejecting a $700 billion bailout package meant to save the financial market the US Congress made another step towards driving the unipolar world into the grave. Judging from the dramatic course of events the USA is losing its status of a superpower in the financial world, and, consequently, its political authority. The current situation is compared to the Great Depression of 1929, when stock markets plummeted, and ruined bankers jumped out of the skyscraper windows as Don Corleone would put it "after lack of imagination".