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...Paulson's current plan exacts no such a price from the financial institutions it proposes to bail out; the idea has not been publicly discussed by either the Congress of the Bush Administration. But it ought not be considered ideologically beyond the pale, since the U.S. government did get equity stakes when it bailed out mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, as it did last week for AIG, the world's largest insurance company...
...greedily West. Before Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy it was in negotiations with the state-owned Korean Development Bank, which was contemplating an investment of up to $6 billion. But partly due to political pressure at home, KDB backed off. Koreans questioned why the country's investment arm should bail out a failing Wall Street firm. Asked an Internet blogger: "Didn't we see what happened to the Chinese...
...August 2007, two internal hedge funds, intended to take bets in the subprime mortage market, collapsed, despite being provided with $3.2 billion by Bear CEO James Cayne to bail out both the funds. After the collapse of the funds, Bear continued to lose money throughout the fall and winter, as the value of mortgage-related assets continued to deteriorate...
...Economist Andrea Goldstein notes that Alitalia in the 1970s was considered an avatar of the efficient European public company. There is a certain irony, Goldstein says, that it faces its death as the free-market oriented U.S. government steps in to bail out much of America's financial-services industry and China revs its own state-run economy. "There is a paradox that as the state elsewhere returns to play a prominent role in managing national economies, in Italy the state is too weak to handle this situation," says Goldstein. The Italian economy seems to suffer from the worst...
Even after committing $285 billion over the past couple of weeks to bail out mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and insurer AIG, the Federal Government is now looking to fork over more - much more...