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...Wall Street's bad mortgage-backed debt was not enough to calm credit jitters. Consumer borrowing fell at an annual rate of 3.7% in August, the first decline in over a decade, the Federal Reserve reported yesterday. In a surprise coordinated move with central banks around the world, the Fed sliced interest by half a point on Wednesday morning before the markets opened...
...banker as temporary head of the agency charged with using the $700 billion to lift bad loans out of the financial system. The banker, Neel Kashkari, immediately took bids from companies interested in running a market to price the bad loans. On Wednesday morning, in a surprising move, the Fed announced a half-point interest rate cut in unprecedented coordination with central banks in Asia and Europe...
...market had initially been buoyed by decisions that occurred before it opened - both the Fed's decision to buy the short-term debt, called commercial paper, that companies issue to fund expenses like payroll and inventory, and the Reserve Bank of Australia's surprising decision to cut its official interest rate by a full percentage point...
...even the unprecedented Fed decision was quickly discounted by the market. Chris Low, chief economist of FTN Financial, said buying commercial paper was a "very good move," but explained that "investors almost have to see things work now before they'll believe them." In particular, Low pointed out, investors may want to be sure that this year's bailout shows results - unlike last year's Master Liquidity Enhancement Conduit, which was an attempt to solve the subprime crisis by three private banks (Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America) using private money - essentially what Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson hopes...
...move into them? So what if people took out numerous credit cards and bought homes they couldn't afford? I had nothing to do with these securitizations, yet my children, my grandchildren and I will be paying for all of it over the next 30 years, thanks to the Fed's bailout. And if excessive lending and borrowing got us into this mess, how is the Fed acting differently by taking out a 30-year mortgage on our nation's future? Please stop the backlash against Wall Street; do not criticize me for my place of business. Kevin M. Nichols...