Which made the whole thing such great fodder for the late night boys.

BTW, my joking is only to cover my extreme discomfort w/the run on Bear Stearns, and the subsequent "rescue" by the Fed.

I have been nervous about the "chickens coming home to roost" and bringing on a mortgage and credit crisis since the late 90s.

I just never in a million years thought it would be as bad as it is panning out to be.

And I don't know that most people in this forum are even aware of how scary this really is.