One of the other pieces at Yahoo Finance is 2008 Financial Crisis Cost Americans $12.8 Trillion.
It seems like the people who most benefited and caused the original problem are the ones getting the bailouts from all this.
The Fed is, essentially, liberating money from the average person by depressing fixed asset investment rates so as to decrease the banks' borrowing costs so that the banks can improve their balance sheets.
Sorry, thought the /s tag went without saying.
Huge disaster in the making if the banks start loaning to deadbeats again.