You hit the nail square on the head. You are correct JPM and the FED both nee big $$$$$. This all started when unemployment started to rise. Think about it with SSI already running dry and unemployment rising where was all the money to come from to cover all those SSI checks being mailed out. The money would not come from the unemployed now would it. The housing bubble was about to burst wide open and that effects everything. Consumer goods appliances and yes even automobile sales. Unemployment would become the next problem and that would mean a reduction in revenues we now know of up to maybe beyond 25%. There is no lock box for those funds and the majority of the profits from the use of those funds fall into the coffers of JPM. All the jobs being shifted over seas and the 12 to 20 million undocumented workers in the country have bled the Social Security system dry and the funds are not being replaced only used.