Well it is sad that people lose their jobs - but those guys would be the first to say "that's the market at work". Maybe now they can move onto careers actually producing something rather than parasitizing the system using inflated funny money. And for all the brilliant "economists" who think we should be bailing out more banks - try to focus on the big picture. Banks are just another investment vehicle - same as stocks, investment trusts, hedge funds, etc. Banks don't deserve special treatment and the fact that they expect it is the height of arrogance. The fact that anyone could support it is amazingly naive. Why not just inject 10 trillion instead of 700 billion - that should really get things moving huh? Financial tricks do nothing to ultimately fix the problem - it just shifts responsibility off the people who took undue risk.