Not surprisingly, the market's up huge on this news. The moves should head off a run on money-market funds, restore liquidity to the financial system, and, as bank analyst Tom Brown puts it in the accompanying video, create a general "time out" for the panic to recede.
So what are the costs? Almost certainly:
* Higher taxes
* Higher interest rates on government debt
* Bigger government deficits
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