…But the most shocking development this week is Bernanke’s vow to monetize long-term US debt that will be created to prevent the US financial system from imploding. Ben realizes that there is no conceivable way for the US to repay the debt. So Ben put the US is on the fast track to massive inflation.

It is very telling that Bernanke, Hank and the Great & Powerful Geithner keep proposing and instituting new ways and means to create credit (paper over) on any hint of trouble.

CNN/Money: Paulson: Feds to expand rescue The federal government is reviewing applications from hundreds of banks seeking rescue funding and is "actively" developing new programs to right the nation's unsettled financial system, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said Monday.

IMO: What they are saying is the thieves have been given the keys to the vault and they are running our of pockets to stash the loot in.