Signs of the Apocalypse?

As we approach Halloween, here are some signs of the Apocalypse:

• The average American credit score is now 666. Does this mean it's time to watch the Rapture Index more closely?
• The US has slipped to 22nd in the global corruption ranking tables, a historic low. In the Americas, this puts the country behind Canada, Barbados and Chile. Nancy Boswell, the president of Transparency International which conducted the survey, said: "We're not talking about corruption in the sense of breaking the law. We're talking about a sense that the system is corrupted by these practices. There's an integrity deficit."

Do you think that examples such as the banks hiding behind the slogan of "paperwork technical problems" when there was widespread fraud and claiming that no one was thrown out of their home who shouldn't have might have something to do with the "integrity deficit" in America?