No, it's NOT the usual supply and demand that's at work here. Government has deregulated finance to a point where financial leverage went haywire. Further, you have information asymmetry going on here, where the guys causing all the ruckus leave the boat before it sinks. And further, being so close to large amounts of capital wealth brings with it great problems of moral hazard (we lack tools to deal with this).

Those should be enough reasons to point out, that all is normal and supply an demand on the market is working is NOT the reason for these income spikes: the more fundamental (systemic) reasons win out here.