Monopoly?

I don't want to make light of a serious situation, especially one that is causing distress and soon financial hardship to so many people, but does the discussion of America's financial system remind anyone else of the end-game in Monopoly?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/business/19fed.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

You've mortgaged everything and each person has a hotel on each property. Then, it happens. You land on the other person's property twice in a row. Is it over? No. You offer to hand over properties (unmortgaged!) to your opponent, and it begins to seep into other parts of your life - I'll make dinner for you tonight if you just roll one more time. Ok, maybe the comparison between a property/finance game and the financial sector is a little too obvious, but I was just thinking about how the way the Fed/Treasury/Congress/world are handling the meltdown is vaguely reminiscent of the way my siblings and I played Monopoly.

Oh, and here's my favorite line from the article:

"Still, the evening discussions took most of Washington by surprise, especially since Congress had been trying to finish up its business and head home to campaign for re-election."

Of course. Why stick around and save the economy?