That will determine everything. At this point, any bill that will provide for the Federal Reserve and the Government (you and me, since it's money) to absorb enough of the impact from this mess to keep the economic insitutions afloat will save the day and the global markets. I keep waiting for him to charge in with one, and that it will also require the undoing of the mandated credit hari-kari that got us here, and also require the 'saved' institutions to repay the American people every penny, albeit over time. I have no doubt that the successions of liberal administrations that mandated by law and directive that the lending institutions do those bad loans, and also changed reporting rules so they could hide their effect on profits, knew damn well that it would one day blow up the system...and pave the way for a permanent Socialist initiative to prevent an economic doomsday. It was an attack on the Republic no different than Pearl Harbor or 911. It just took a lot longer to bring off, and it was a lot sneakier.