Even the extravagant bailout of financial giant Citigroup, in which the US government has poured in $45 billion of capital and backstopped losses on over $300 billion in bad loans, may ultimately prove inadequate.  When one looks across the landscape of remaining problems, including the multi-trillion-dollar credit default swap market, it is clear that the hole in the financial system is too big to be filled entirely by taxpayer dollars.
Même l’extravagant renflouement de Citigroup, géant de la finance dans lequel le gouvernement américain a injecté 45 milliards de liquidités et couvert des pertes dues à de mauvais prêts à hauteur d’environ 300 milliards, pourrait finalement s’avérer inapproprié.