For a brief, surreal moment, the prevailing narrative in Washington was that the 2008-09 bail-outs were not really so bad. In September, Tim Geithner, Treasury secretary, called the government’s troubled asset relief programme “one of the most effective emergency programmes in financial history”, claiming that the final cost to taxpayers would be less than $50bn.
曾有那么一個短暫而離奇的時刻，華盛頓流行這樣一種說法：2008年至2009年的紓困行動實際上算不上太糟糕。今年9月，美國財長蒂姆?蓋特納(Tim Geithner)將政府的問題資產(chǎn)救助計劃(TARP)稱為“金融史上最有高效的緊急計劃之一”，他當時聲稱，納稅人付出的最終代價將不超過500億美元。
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