More on the historic Fed move

Bloomberg.com: Worldwide:

"Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke is being forced to throw out four decades of monetary history by a financial system choking on miscalculated risks and a deepening recession.

Bernanke and the four Fed governors voted yesterday to become creditors to Bear Stearns Cos., a securities firm that isn't a bank, by invoking a law that hasn't been used since the 1960s. Three days earlier, the Fed said it would swap Treasury notes on its balance sheet for privately issued mortgage-backed securities held by Wall Street firms.

``It's a re-drawing of the relationship of the Federal Reserve with the rest of the financial system"

There is no doubt this will be talked about in classes for years.