Reality

I said when the bailout vote was happening that I didn't think it would help much if at all... exception being the raising of the FDIC insured limits to prevent all out panic.

That said, there are many people a lot smarter than me who think that Paulson letting Lehman Brothers go under was a very big deal. The big domino in the credit freeze.

Considering the last 7 years of economic expansion was propped up by the Feds printing more money, jacking home prices up, having everyone borrow money, crooked rating agencies, high leverage ratios, etc all this was bound to happen. reality will set in and the markets will adjust. it'll be a while though because the government is still pumping money into financial institutions