By Deborah Newell Tornello
a.k.a. litbrit
The Two-Faced Mayor
from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.
It would seem that America's billionaires don't wear bootstraps. Or something:
Should the Federal Reserve help bail out billionaire hedge fund managers and millionaire traders — the very people who bought the risky mortgages that led to the current market panic?
That, in essence, is the question swirling around Ben S. Bernanke as he confronts the first crisis of his 18 months as Fed chairman.