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...Answering the second question - repairing bank balance sheets - is neither simple nor clear-cut. What is clear is that the capital needed will not come (entirely) from private hands. Banks and policymakers will essentially have a few different options: banks can issue more common stock; policymakers can push more conversions of preferred shares (or liabilities) into tangible common stock of the troubled banks; or more capital can be injected using taxpayers money, effectively taking control and (partially) nationalizing the banks...
...government is forever finding money that it should not be spending or should not have spent. The special TARP placeholder is a perfect example. Its existence means the people running the financial arms of the Administration have not made up their minds about what to do if the banking system suffers more stress or begins to collapse as it threatened to do late last year. The results from the bank "stress tests" showed that the capital needs of America's banks are modest, about $74 billion, compared to more pessimistic figures provided by the IMF and bank experts. Banks...
...That raises a question for investors. If the government buys the bank's common stock outright, investors know how much their own stake is diluted. But since some of the preferreds may convert and others won't, investors are left with a less clear picture of a bank stock's worth...
...independent Palestinian state, arguing that the Palestinians should enjoy self-governance but without full sovereignty, because that would put Israel at risk. Anyway, he argues, the Palestinians' governance, security capability and level of economic development currently make talk of statehood hypothetical. Hamas rules Gaza and threatens the West Bank, where the Palestinian Authority of President Mahmoud Abbas is increasingly weak. (See pictures of the recent Gaza...
...beat a Hamas candidate at the polls. Hamas remains the majority party in the Palestinian legislature; it controls all of Gaza following a violent showdown in 2007 that saw Abbas' supporters ejected from power. Hamas may also be even more popular than Fatah in the Abbas-controlled West Bank, where free political activity is suppressed by Israeli and Palestinian security forces. (See pictures of Gaza after Israel's offensive...