http://www.rense.com/general85/riot.htm

It's true, they do want "the people" to riot
It makes it easier for them to ensue a police state.
Don't give them what they want

The idea is not only to collapse the American economy, but to throw so much money at the problem (the banks mostly) as quickly as possible so that the response options of the government are zero by the time the economy really crashes on the scale that is planned.