It just shows how full of shit those idiots are that say the Fed has done "a great/wonderful/magnificent job" at "navigating" us through this crisis. Dick Durbin who represents my state of IL said just that a few days ago.
The Fed is part of the problem. It helps, in large part with Congress and other other colluding institutions, to create cheap money bubbles and the boom bust economic cycle. It's hand are all over this current mess, the Dot Com mess and the mortgage meltdown mess. All in a row.
One of there main focuses is on maintaining a healthy financial sector and sound banks. It did none of these. Asleep at the wheel...or awake and fully knowing where it was going. Either way, what a joke.