I've been following this for weeks in The Economist. They recommended that the Fed do this, but I honestly didn't think it would happen. Here are a couple recent articles if ou haven't been following:

Recent background article:

http://www.economist.com/finance/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1...

about nationalisation:

http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=1....