This has become so abstract that I have no clue as how the government, or anyone else, should value these assets. In ignorance, I am very tempted to say “let the house of cards fall.” We have a profit and loss system. Perhaps now it's time for the losses. Great depression? Just another scare of the day, along with global warming-cooling, nuclear meltdowns, oil spills, hurricanes, tyranny through the Patriot Act, etc.
We ceased having a profit and loss system when the Reno Justice Department threatened financial institutions with red-lining. When the institutions caved and began the worthless paper shuffle backed by taxpayers, there was no longer a profit and loss system, only a democrat engineered socialist cesspool.