But the stress tests and targeted TARP money, the path of least resistance taken, enabled the banks to earn their way back to solvency. However distasteful the uses to which those earnings have been put, they at least prevented the financial system from falling off a cliff.
但是压力测试和问题资产剥离计划（ TARP ）这两个异议最少的措施，的确使银行利润回升，从资不抵债的状态起死回生。不论那些利润的去向多么令人愤慨，它至少从悬崖边上挽救了整个金融体系。