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...would allow smaller investment managers to have a chance to participate in the program, probably in the hope that a wider net will catch more fish. But, when the local community bank in Akron, Ohio is allowed to get federal money to buy toxic assets from Bank of America (BAC), it does not look good...
...much to say that boards and executives who turn their backs on protecting the interests of their depositors, shareholders, customers, and employees will be keelhauled. This applies as much to hedge funds which have customers and shareholders of their own as it does to the Bank of America (BAC) which is, under the banking laws already in place, is regulated to within an inch of its life...
...Just two days after Pandit's comment, the head of another beleaguered firm, Bank of America (BAC), said the company would not need another dime from the government and that it would make money in 2009. Ken Lewis has been maligned for his role in buying brokerage firm Merrill Lynch and then not noticing that it had lost $15 billion late last year. And, oh yes, then may have illicitly paid some of that money in bonuses to Merrill management...
...people in charge are either incompetent or dishonest. The average person must wonder whether anyone is in charge when the forecasts of bank failure rates are unbelievably low at the same time that the Administration is debating whether it may have to nationalize Citigroup (C) or Bank of America (BAC...
...Just like Detroit, Bank of America (BAC), and Citigroup (C), AIG is playing a game of chicken with Washington that the government does not feel it can afford to lose. Imagine what it would be like if all of these businesses failed at the same time. (Read a TIME story on why the government wouldn't let AIG fail...