One Year after the Wall Street Meltdown

Henry Paulson had been the CEO of Goldman Sachs, a Republican and a free marketeer. But as George W. Bush's reluctant Treasury Secretary, he engineered the biggest government intervention of modern times. Barack Obama promised big change, but he picked as Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, who also played a key role in the Bush Administration's Wall Street bailout. More institutions than ever are "too big to fail" and, while the President's warned against excess risk, he has not said they wouldn't be bailed out again. The new regulations he has proposed may have trouble in Congress, which is gearing up for another election year. The TARP and the federal stimulus might have saved the economy, but what's been done to prevent another recession as bad as the one we're in now?