The biggest losers are effectively Americans and the future Americans. Brittany mentions ‘protectionism’ it is an ugly word when especially the world has become used to openiness and globalisation and transfer of manufacturing to locations with less costly labour taking the US very much into be a service economy. If the US demands that all the steel required for the stimulus is US Steel then it will cost 30-45% more to do the same job. The US is not respecting the fact that the crisis was an ugly export of the US to the world and the world needs the same stimulus as the US. The restrictions on Conventions and meetings will cause the secretary of the Treasury sooner or later to have to bail out the resortsd and Convention Centers and even States who have a high reliance on tourism dollars. So far the stimulus does not address the real reason what happened and the how to cure. Inflation – much interest interest rates and a further move to Gold will occur in months.