<snip> 2) the government's intervention saved the tax payers a lot of money, when all is considered; and 3)

It may have saved a few jobs in this epoch, but it has slung a millstone around future generations necks.

Economists don't really know whether the current measures will work, they are just doing the opposite to what they did in the run up to the great depression.

They are becoming increasing uneasy with what is happening at present, time will tell.