Where it may be very helpful is for the few truly big ideas that simply need money to demonstrate their new idea or methodand provided that a successful demonstration would lead to a significant upside.
With resolution authority, the idea is to take the same method the government has for seizing small banks and apply it to very large holding companies.
Perhaps we sound ungrateful, but this sort of acceleration for Flash -- the internet's most popular multimedia delivery method -- is long overdue, and we're not overly impressed with the idea of waiting until mid-2010 for it to happen.