Actually, WB wouldn't have gone into this mess if it stayed with it's own tried and true banking. Instead management got greedy and purchased a California lender of sub-prime mortgages, and when they started to go under.....
One good thing is that Wachovia kept all it's loans on it's books, instead of splicing and dicing, then selling them off. So it should be eaiser for "workouts" and such for those holding mortgages gone bad.
OTHO it is not going to be pretty for WB's workers, shareholders, and investors.
L.