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After the $180 billion AIG bailout initiated last summer, the $700 billion financial-system booster last fall and the $878 billion stimulus package this winter, convincing Americans that their money isn't being wasted is no easy task. Geithner has said the government may put up as much as $1 trillion in loans and guarantees to subsidize the sale of the toxic assets to private investors. Though the government could get back the money if the assets start trading again, many Americans see it going down a sinkhole. Says Democratic pollster Mark Mellman: "There's a narrative out there...
...harder: so far few private investors have shown any interest in tapping the trillion-dollar subsidy to buy toxic assets from the banks. Hedge funds and other players all want to know the terms of the sale before they even think about stepping up to the plate. So far, Geithner and Treasury have provided little detail. "The question of how to price the asset is still on the table, unresolved," says Scott Talbott, a top lobbyist for the Financial Services Roundtable, an industry association...
...even clear how Geithner would run such a complicated sale. Previously he talked about using an auction or a reverse auction (in which sellers bid prices lower to attract buyers). Now Administration officials say they may just expand a new program run by the Federal Reserve. That program, the Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF), is designed to spur consumer lending by stimulating sales of securitized consumer loans. The New York Federal Reserve has had to extend the application period because of market qualms, though Talbott says interest is building...
...Geithner provides answers to these questions in his rollout later this week, he may start to turn the corner on public skepticism toward him, the bank plan and the government's recovery efforts. He might even spark a stock-market rally. But the banking industry's hopes are more modest: "As long as he comes out with details on the public-private investment fund, then it's not a miss," says Talbott. If he doesn't, he'll have an even bigger mess on his hands. Alabama Senator Richard Shelby - the ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee - Senator John...
...Then he announced that he had instructed his Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner, to seek "every single legal avenue available to block" $165 million in bonuses that were awarded last week to the very same traders at AIG's financial-products division who made the bad bets in the first place. This was a politically necessary thing for Obama to say, even if it lacked a punch...