These matters are part of the public record. The Treasury realized an overall loss on the resurrection of General Motors, and a profit on the secured loans it made to AIG. The Tarp program which helped save banks with sufficient collateral is not quite complete, however it appears to be headed for an overall profit. My opinion is that in retrospect there are aspects of the government's response to the financial crisis that might have been better done and a few choices that might have been better made, but overall the rescue of the financial markets, and consequently the economy, was brilliantly executed by the Treasury and Federal Reserve working together. Bernanke has said, having to rescue AIG made him mad. One sometimes has to do things that one does not want to do because no reasonable alternative is at hand.