Complete Financial Meltdown Averted, But Barely

This has nothing to do w/ the Senate passing anything. Brought to our attention by commenter hatmandu at the House of TBogg, a link, & a videoindicating (about 2:35) that we've already come to the very edge of the financial abyss (everything literally collapsing) & may still, in a Wile E. Coyote stylee, be hanging by a thread or floating in the atmosphere, about to discover gravity's full strength.