Less successful were various market interventions.
Bank bosses, who deny acting improperly, hoped market interventions would restore crumbling confidence in Kaupthing's solvency.
It contains so many complex market interventions that only a fantasist could confidently predict its effects.
Russia's central bank said on Monday it had conducted $478m worth of currency market interventions on 11 December.
With interest rates at rock bottom and other market interventions already deployed, policy makers would have few weapons left.
Conservatives The party is concentrating on tax cuts, rather than market interventions to reduce the cost of living.
Tax credits, quotas, deductions, exemptions, pilot projects, guaranteed prices and guaranteed demand are all examples of creative market interventions.
Treasury Secretary Lawrence H. Summers, a veteran of many currency market interventions (some that worked, some that flopped) took the other side.
There have also bond market interventions by the European Central Bank in, for example, Italy where households' average net wealth is higher than in Germany.
ECB secondary market interventions can only take place if the eurozone bailout funds (EFSF/ESM) intervene first in the primary market, lending directly to distressed governments.
Do you wait and judge when the politicians could finally summon the will to start making regulatory and market interventions … and then get out?
