When is the bubble going to burst?
It will take a while I fear. They plan/hope is to keep things afloat until the economy turns around. Of course the borrowing required to do this will be staggering, but the banksters will survive pretty much in tact.
Bernanke believes the cause of the Great Depression was the failure of the financial system, he is intent on preventing a recurrence of this failure. They also believe that inflation is better than deflation, I think primarily because of the huge debt owed by the government and the resistance to wage deflation built into the system (minimum wage, UE bennies, etc).
So extend and pretend is the MO, it will just prolong the necessary adjustments however.
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