Let's just see how the Feds are cookin'the books. Last week it turned out that they don't know where 9 Trillion dollars are .. let's say that again the feds can't track 9.7 Trillion dollars ...
Why the F are they in charge anyway ..... greedy SOB bankers.
Look, Wall Street funded the Obama campaign. Pay back is required. No further mention of this issue would be appreciated.
MacThulhu
Of course, countries without independent central bank go through far worse because it allows politicians to print money to fund whatever they want to fund. That doesn't mean, of course, that the bailouts are a good idea. If it were up to me I would have simply converted all ARMs to 30 year fixed at the original rates, let the companies take whatever loss that result (hey, they shouldn't have written them in the first place and no, they weren't forced to) and left them to sink or swim.