That's because it attempted to trace money, to separate good dollars from bad.

FORBES: How The Government Subsidizes Leveraged Takeovers

It's a tricky business to separate good dollars from bad ones.

FORBES: Magazine Article

So how does one separate the good from the bad?

CNN: Experts cite must-haves for effective rehab

There is some debate as to how exact defensive statistics are, but there is little question that they separate the good from the bad, especially with a large sample size.

WSJ: N.Y. Yankees: There's No Defense for Derek Jeter's Glove

How do you separate the good from the bad?

FORBES: Magazine Article

Disagreement is certainly one way to separate the good ideas from the bad and reach an optimum solution, but it cannot become self-serving and destructive.

FORBES: Move up http://i.forbesimg.com t Move down

The government could then separate bad assets from good, appoint new managers and reprivatise the cleaned-up bits by selling them to investors (ideally, including some foreigners).

ECONOMIST: Japan's banks

Emotional investors fail to separate the news from the noise, selling stocks with good and bad fundamentals alike.

FORBES: How to Amass and Lose a Fortune on Wall Street