What really happened was the big boys created a scam game and got caught holding too much of the garbage they created to scam the ordinary uninformed people. They get away with it in the penny markets every day and the government does nothing to protect the small investors; but when the billlionaire
gets into trouble they control the government and demand help. They manipulate the share price up, and down. Now that they got the market down , and force others to sell they want the government to give them money to buy good investments at a very cheap price.
Money is only a piece of paper with no actual value but is used to facilitate the buying and selling of things. The government prints all the money they want. They call it a credit crunch saying , people cant afford to pay for what they purchased; so where do you think the money is coming from?