I'll raise you two Hamiltons and a Madison...

Allow me to finish the thoughts of the insightful Paul Krugman...

If a national--meaning government owned--bank was a good policy for the Founding Fathers of our nation, it's a good policy to me. Time to nationalize these failed and otherwise insolvent privately-owned banks and have ourselves a new Bank of the United States. But this time, any chance it might actually help regular folks out there?