Capitalism - well modern capitalism when currency is not tied to any standard (gold/jewels for example) - is based purely on confidence. People believe a currency is doing well, and that things have a value, life is peachy. However, it is when they stop believing (for whatever reason) that this is no longer true, that things fuck up - like the situation we are in at the moment. Luckily for us we have "Scuzz'ian Economics" which within holds the perfect method to stop this massive fuck up all the arsehole bankers caused to just get a little bit of extra cash without any thought of the long term, or who they fuck over to get it.
Starting tomorrow everyone needs to fake confidence in the currency - pounds, dollars, euros, whatever - and pretend like nothing happened. Keep this up for 2-3 days, and everything will be back to normal.
Don't believe me? Think about how unsafe you feel now - compared to 3 weeks ago. Nothing has changed, people just found out about all these dodgy mortgages and lost faith in the system.
This is one of the only situations in which ignorance is bliss - take the blue pill.
Scuzzmonkey.