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The Bush Administration must take two steps immediately to quickly halt the unending, enervating credit crisis: shore up the anemic dollar and, for the time being, suspend “marking to market” those new financial instruments, such as packages of subprime mortgages.

en·er·vate
tr.v.   en·er·vat·ed, en·er·vat·ing, en·er·vates

1. To weaken or destroy the strength or vitality of: “the luxury which enervates and destroys nations” (Henry David Thoreau). See Synonyms at deplete.
2. Medicine To remove a nerve or part of a nerve.

The credit market maelstrom has hit very close to home with the March 13 run on Bear Stearns.

mael·strom
n.  

1. A violent or turbulent situation: caught in the maelstrom of war.
2. A whirlpool of extraordinary size or violence.

Until 2004 private charities were verboten in China, because the Communist Party feared that they might compete with it for the populace’s affections.

ver·bo·ten
adj.   Forbidden; prohibited.