One model being talked about is the Reconstruction Finance Corporation introduced in the 1930s during the Depression.

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Mr Bernanke's groundbreaking paper on the Depression, published in 1983, noted that recovery began in 1933 with large infusions of federal cash into institutions, through the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and households, through the Home Owners' Loan Corporation.

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This careful planning means that not everything (for example, the Securities and Exchange Commission) is found where it might have been expected, but almost everything gets inspected and discussed at last (though there is no proper account of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, the New Deal's banker).

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They are the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the International Development Association (IDA), the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA) and the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID).

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