Bush is speaking: “Anxiety can feed anxiety, and that can make it hard to see all that is being done to solve the problem.” He then lays it all out. The litany is impressive: Liquidity from the Fed, removal of commercial paper by the Treasury, the FDIC assuring deposits at banks and money-market funds, rigorous enforcement by the SEC against illegal market manipulation, new initiatives to help those in danger of foreclosure, and so on. It is not only impressive, it is important; it should quell the idea, which is still prevalent, that government is doing nothing to help anyone but Wall Street fat cats.
The problem is that anxiety is not helped by someone telling the anxious person not to be anxious. That only metastasizes the anxiety.