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Why the turnaround? It comes down to this: Banks need money. The U.S. government has it. Or can print it. So in addition to the end-around plans to buy mortgage securities and other toxic assets that Paulson and Fed Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke have been devising, why not go...
"A capital shortage is a capital shortage is a capital shortage," says Anil Kashyap, professor of economics and finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. To Kashyap and a number of economists, this has been the problem from the beginning, and any proposed solution that doesn't...
What would that mean for banks, and how would the program function? First and foremost, the senior Administration official says, it would be voluntary. The banks would come to the government. Treasury would not pick the ones that look like they need help and offer it to them. "We're...
Lending remains absolutely frozen right now, as banks are too frightened to lend to each other - let alone businesses and municipalities, since they're worried about who could go under next. The initial market reaction to Paulson's speech was something on the order of: "Holy [expletive deleted], we must...
Directly investing in the banks allows Paulson to get the money to where it is needed the fastest, which would then allow well-capitalized banks to loosen the strings of lending. Nationalization? Not quite. Under such a plan, the U.S. would become a shareholder in banks, taking stock in exchange...