What has never been in doubt in my mind is that thin-air money printing and the bailing out of banks and financial institutions would be tried and tried again. The alternative is unthinkable to those in power, because it involves living within one's means and letting those who took the risks eat the losses.
Here we are at the tail end of a forty year credit bubble in which everybody participated (although China and India were late to the event) and nobody wants that party to end. It is simply so much easier to simply borrow, spend and kick the can down the road.
As noted here repeatedly, we have an exponential credit system which, by extension, gives us an exponential money system. Until and unless the credit markets can be coerced back onto an exponential trajectory, nothing will work quite right to the point that systemic financial collapse is a distinct possibility.
Given that possibility, nobody in power has even the slightest wish to test out the odds and so they will opt to print, print, print.
Just yesterday the UK opted for another round of printing but look how they applied it:
