[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

They will adopt the Japanese model and funnel free money to them to stay afloat.

I don't know, there wasn't even a hint that the government would bail out Enron, Global Crossing, Worldcom, or the possible Time-Warner AOL failure.

[Nuke'm Glowing]

There's a huge difference between an Enron and a money center bank. The implications of a Citigroup failure would slice 1000 points off the Dow. That is just never going to be allowed to happen, not in our lifetimes.