When faced with a budding financial crisis, the good central banker does a two-step dance. First, he (or she) staunches the bleeding, closing insolvent financial institutions, tightening lending standards, and otherwise making sure that bad loans stop being made. The good central banker then takes the second step: Pumping liquidity into the markets, to make sure that otherwise solvent institutions do not go under because the bad ones close - Businessweek
How long this kind of covering can continue? It seems that under the fiat money, fractional reserve and interest based economy, the financial fiasco is unavoidable.
