Inflation here? gas/grocery prices just continue to climb

Yea I'm being a bit jaded with that comment - the 2008 bail outs is more what I'm thinking of though, not more recent events.

To be fair the 2008 bailouts were paid back with a small net profit to the Treasury.. Which is not usually the case for massive bailouts.

I was very skeptical of TARP at the time but it was in hindsight a very necessary and effective device.