Some crises spread hysteria; some clear the mind and focus attention. This one has done both. Lehman Brothers' fall panicked financial markets into paralysis. Wrong-footed policy-makers scrambled for responses – to the point of then US Treasury secretary Henry Paulson's three-page proposal for a law to give him $700bn, no strings attached.
一些危机会传播歇斯底里；一些危机能令人头脑清醒，集中注意力。本轮危机两者兼而有之。雷曼兄弟(Lehman Brothers)的倒闭令金融市场惊慌失措，陷入了瘫痪。乱了方寸的政策制定者仓促寻找应对方案——时任美国财长的汉克•保尔森(Hank Paulson)甚至拿出了一份3页纸的立法提案，要求允许他动用7000亿美元救市，没有任何附加条件。
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