Not as such, but why would the government need to "broker" something with the banks unless they were giving the banks something in exchange for "holding the bag?"
It may not be a direct bailout, but it could be something as "simple" as promises in steering monetary policy in a way that makes it less painful.
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"Hey, for every ten dollars, that's another hour that I have to be in the work place. That's an hour of my life. And my life is a very finite thing. I have only 'x' number of hours left before I'm dead. So how do I want to use these hours of my life? Do I want to use them just spending it on more crap and more stuff, or do I want to start getting a handle on it and using my life more intelligently?" -- Joe Dominguez (1938 - 1997)
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