I think nothing (or as fche said "none of the above) was an option. The economy is sick because we insisted the sickest companies in the economy were "too big to fail". We're keeping them on life support when they're sucking the life out of the economy.

People --> government --> central bank --> money --> people...

This is 2015, why do we need so many middle men and such an inefficient closed source volatile paper based system? How about letting the people issue their own money based on open source computer algorithms and p2p networks instead of oligarchy voodoo?

It was not "doing nothing" I was proposing, but "giving nothing", in the specific sense of donating (vs. paying for a service).