A little levity

Want to spend a few minutes in Henry Paulson's shoes?

BailoutSleuth heard last week from Blue Earth Interactive LLC, a Minnesota company that has used information from this site and others to create The Bailout Game. The game provides an amusing, multimedia retrospective of the measures that the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve have taken in response to the economic crisis.

Players get to guide Treasury Secretary Paulson and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke down Wall Street, making decisions about which institutions to save and which to let fail.

The game changes with the choices a player makes. The goal is to make it all the way across the board without running out of bailout money or ushering in a recession -- or worse. Players who get stuck can even seek advice from former Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan.

Test your bailout skills here: http://www.thebailoutgame.us