Ben, you can turn shit paper into Gold. You just can't do it. We desperately need a market correction of 20 or 30% to put in a bottom. Then he can continue to do his economic experiment from his Ivory Tower to ward off a full fledged depression. Right now the market is so manipulated who knows how bad things really are. So much for thinking the worse was over in Real Estate.
A most interesting article: http://www.dailyreportonline.com/Editorial/News/singleEdit.asp?individual_SQL=3/17/2008@21975
It's official. Interest rates are going to zero: http://www.federalreserve.gov/boardDocs/speeches/2002/20021121/default.htm