how about you get a 700 billion cash injection from the government, and it turns out the financiers have already been playing pass the parcel wit the debt, and somebody is getting cast loose with the debt while the other banks run off with the cash.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Didn't they invent CDSs?

A vivid image of what should exist acts as a surrogate for reality. Pursuit of the image then prevents pursuit of the reality -- John K. Galbraith