The prize was the payout to Bernanke for pushing Obama to bail out the criminal bankers while not interfering in the "market" at the consumer level and simply letting borrowers fail. He should share that prize with Larry Summers who also had Obama's ear and filled it with nonsense econ continually.

When CNN interviewed him about where the money would come from, he let the cat out of the bag. He told the truth and stated that no "taxpayer money" would be involved and the funding would amount to nothing more than some computer keystrokes at the Fed to mark up bailed-out accounts.

Had any of the financial and political gurus that take up space in the media been able to connect the dots between those sentences they might have guided our nation and its banking system to heed the warnings from heterodox economists that had been shouting "DANGER WILL ROBINSON" since the Clinton surplus budgets that began pushing the economy to fund itself with private sector debt without public money needed to retire that debt.