When the crisis hit, the Fed pulled every lever on their control panel to prevent a complete meltdown. Picture Homer Simpson in full panic at the controls of his nuclear power plant pulling every lever, pushing all the buttons and turning each dial as the sirens sound and red lights flash that the core is going critical. Like Simpson, Bernanke's Fed pulled a lot of levers that had never been touched before and some that many of us never knew existed. Now that the crisis has been averted, how can we tell which actions were important and which were extraneous or even misguided?
See Jim Anderson's and Joe Morgan's Point / Counterpoint