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...putting hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer money into the pot to increase jobs, cut taxes for most citizens, and put a safety net under financial firms is excessive. One of the things that these governments rarely admit is that they may not have the capacity to borrow in the open debt market the way that the U.S. Treasury can. China may not want to own paper from the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and it is hard to blame the communist central government in the big Asian country for that. The U.S. is still viewed as unique in both...
...course, when addicts finally quit, it feels awful for a while, and that's where we are right now. The recession, provoked by the sudden, essentially cold-turkey abandonment of spending, lending and borrowing, is something like our national equivalent of the jitters, sweats and seizures that addicts experience right after they give up the junk. Actually, the applicable addiction trope is more like food (or sex) than drugs or booze, since as economic creatures, we can't quit; we just have to teach ourselves to buy and borrow in moderate, healthier ways. The new America must be about financial...
...entirely convincing argument that helping worthy people who cannot pay their mortgages with their home loans will stabilize the housing market. The Fed's plan to buy as much as $300 billion in Treasuries may bring down interest rates, but that will not automatically cause businesses and consumers to borrow money and restart the spending cycles that, to some extent, caused the current financial crisis...
...Securities-lending is supposed to be a sort of Christmas club of high finance. Companies like insurers, which own tons of equities and Treasury bonds that they are holding long term, lend them out short term, often overnight, to borrowers who need the shares to fulfill other commitments. For instance, if hedge funds want to sell shares short, they borrow them, putting up cash collateral that includes a small spread to the lender. Typically, the owner of the shares takes that collateral and invests it in something with low risk and of short duration, like commercial paper. The lender...
...planning to put another several hundred billion dollars into buying up debt to help bring down interest rates. Nearly $300 billion of that will go to buying longer term Treasuries. If that causes interest rates to fall, it will help people who borrow money in the future, but may not do very much for Citi's clients who borrowed money over the last two years. Many of those clients are tapped out, and the big bank faces hundreds of millions, possibly billions, of dollars in write-down of consumer loans. That does not take into account the amounts that will...