The mistake the Yanks made was to apply socialist principles to a capitalist system to avoid a recession!....at best any government can do is smooth the process out,if their own citizens are so greedy then they must suffer....rules were too lax....lying to them that they could avoid the recession....anyway all this ballyhoo,is a massive plot to transfer wealth from the rest of the world to America....U are incredulous,well look how the value of the Dollar is increasing as i write this.....I've been through two other market crashes and this one seems to be the worst,or my memory is failing....I'll have to re-finance my trading accounts ,for the first time in my life...how ever going to wait till the new year.