Why You Should Hate the Treasury Bailout Proposal

$700 B could actually look pretty cheap when compared to some of the other potential scenarios.

have any specific ones in mind?

As I was watching some of the coverage this morning, Paulson's rhetoric was almost threatening. Urging Congress to act now - and I was reminded of the times when politicians had used the power of threat to press people to act despite their best interests.

What I saw this morning was eerily similar to that from Paulson.

I remain a bystander in these threads, primarily because this is something I know absolutely nothing about.

But what you write there makes me wonder - is that threatening, foreboding sense of doom histrionics or is there something that potentially catastrophic on the horizon?