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Because interest rates are at zero. We've injected all this money into the banking system and banks have lost so much capital that their inclination is to hoard capital. It's going to be very hard to get it out the other end. That happened in 1932. By 1932...
I also wonder how much power central bankers ultimately have to prevent massive problems like this. You write about how in 1929, when the Fed cracked down on banks lending to brokers selling stock on margin, money flooded in from other sources.
I do think there is a wider issue [of] investing so much power in the hands of people like Alan Greenspan and saying, 'We'll just trust you because you said it's O.K.' - I don't think anyone is going to do that for another 50 years, until we...
Merckle's investment company, VEM, owes banks €5 billion. For the past two months, Merckle had been entrenched in negotiations with some 40 banks, including Commerzbank AG, Deutsche Bank AG, Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC and public bank Landesbank Baden-Wüerttemberg, to get a bridge loan...
He played a high-stakes game, at one point threatening the banks that he would file for bankruptcy, which would have left creditors empty-handed. Merckle seemed to have a chance of refinancing his business when at the end of December banks granted him a reprieve on loans that were...