Word: dollarize
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...talk about Reserve Primary Fund, which was the first of three funds at Reserve Management to break the buck. What Reserve announced was that because of investments in Lehman IOUs, it was worth 97 cents per share instead of a dollar. In other words, it was down by 3%. Not worthless. Down by 3%. Let's keep that in mind...
...market funds this way, but they do from time to time. In 1994, for example, amid the bankruptcy of Orange County, Calif., more than 20 money market funds were bailed out by their corporate parents. Only one fund was liquidated. And even then, investors received 96 cents on the dollar. The reason Moody's is considering downgrading 13 of Lehman's money markets isn't because of what they own, but because the ratings agency isn't sure the parent company, which is in bankruptcy, would be able to step in if needed...
...scariest thing to average folk: one of the nation's biggest money-market mutual funds, the Reserve Primary, announced that it's going to give investors less than 100 cent on each dollar invested because it got stuck with Lehman securities it now considers worthless. If you can't trust your money fund, what can you trust? To use a technical term to describe this turmoil: yechhh...
...though, we're seeing the downside of this financial internationalization. Many of the mortgages and mortgage securities owned or guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were bought by foreign central banks, which wanted to own dollar-based securities that carried slightly higher interest rates than boring old U.S. Treasury securities. A big reason the Fed and Treasury felt compelled to bail out Fannie and Freddie was the fear that if they didn't, foreigners wouldn't continue funding our trade and federal-budget deficits...
...flaws. Perhaps we should have been reading “On the Road” along the way rather than David Sedaris. But certainly the free-lovers would still allow us to partake of their Kool-Aid, right?But instead of delicious red fruit-punch nectar, I found five-dollar-a-cup, more-ice-than-liquid lemonade sold from one of hundreds of stands waiting to take all your money as you stood dehydrated in the Southern sun. There were tents sponsored by television stations, software corporations, and Major League Baseball. I was a girl conflicted. At one show...