drunkle- getting tired of you suggesting that I don’t support trading in the market, shorting, etc or that I even know how to fix this problem. I don’t know, I just point out what happened historically and perhaps why the Fed stepping in isn’t so wrong and why there have been debates on this topic – and why there will be no magic bullet. Its called presenting a point of view, an opinion. I don’t have a magic ball, I have no clue what will happen. I do however understand how the i-banks and commercial banks have interdependencies and valuing derivatives is a complex imperfect arena. Its just not as simple as saying damn those greedy bastards and hope they all suffer from their firms collapsing….