Darling is rumoured to be considering a Swedish style (presumably flat packed) capital injection which has some economists making postitive noises. The injection will be back by preferential share options.
Afraid??
Of what exactly, that our houses will explode, our cars will stop running, our computers will all get viruses and our shops stop selling food altogether!!?? Certain banks look a bit shaky right now but could also prove good investments with share prices and valuations being low.
I'm sorry WWW but the gloomy ecomnomists blogs you've been reading may have predicted the end of the world some time back and now they are rubbing their hands gleefully because they can spout out more of the theories they've studied and developed during their pot smoking days at university. They may have predicted the house crash and the crash in the economy but then again so did some very sucsessful fund managers and they aren't wandering up and down the metaphorical streets with placard saying 'The End of the World Is Nigh'. They're keeping calm, commenting on the usefulness or otherwise of the measures which are being implemented, looking at investment oppotunities and offering sound advice rather than running round like Corpral Jones shouting (DON'T) PANIC MR MANNERING.
Capitalism is just a string or cirisis connected together with periods optimism and uncertainty, it always has been and always will be.