Leave it to The Onion to mimic reality with its usual humor. To tell you just how fantasy-like things have become, on a private email list to which I belong, a financial Austrian (who was not previously aware of The Onion) actually queried the list about this article, asking about whether or not the article was true.
I suppose, five or ten years ago, you would have thought all the recent government hearings and crisis control meetings held by the Feds were episodes of Saturday Night Live. They ain't.