Nah, this isn't their same pattern, but it's a recession trend for sure. Analyze the markets along with the timeline of efforts on the side of government/federal in every other recession the US has faced and you'll see similar effects.
It'll be a few more months of this, and even I, OBAMAHATERPRIME, will admit that the trillions of dollars pumped into, especially the latest trillion dollars going to the faulty assets, will start having noticable effects in the markets. However, we'll be having problems at that time in sectors outside of the market/banks due to the trillions of dollars spent. That is, unless China and The Kremlin's wishes for the new global reserve currency (currently USD) are heard. If that happens, I have no idea what the state of the US dollar will be. Probably even more useless.