I sure don't get the compulsion in DC to drive down the market - first Treasury Secretary Paulson did it in 2008 by getting on his knees to Nancy Pelosi to beg for help when he probably had all the tools he needed to bail out the banks without Congress; and now Bernanke jawing it down. But, fyi, Alexander Hamilton did it first when the U.S. first bought bonds and they became almost a bubble.