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Duffie says sky-high rates for default insurance for 10 of the world's most prominent banks, including Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, demonstrate that there is a lot of market concern about the stability of leading financial institutions, even after the Treasury's recent steps. Another piece of evidence: the premiums on three-month interbank loans remain very high in comparison with overnight loans, signaling banks' deep uncertainty about the sector's stability...
None of that is to say that the bailout bill won't help at all. Paulson and Co. have a lot of flexibility under the legislation, and could ultimately act as a kind of sovereign wealth fund, injecting cash for equity, as famed investor Warren Buffett recently did with Goldman Sachs. Or the Feds could avoid carrying equity by lending money to financial institutions willing to buy up questionable bank assets at discounted rates. But first the Treasury seems ready to dip into its $700 billion to establish a reverse auction set-up to ensure that the government doesn...
...Vladimir Putin--and after former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan confessed the irrelevance of truth to his p.r. strategy--his television appearances are now widely ignored, and his approval ratings have touched an all-time low of 23%, according to a new TIME poll. His Treasury Secretary, former Goldman Sachs CEO Henry Paulson Jr., wasn't a much more compelling pitchman for near absolute power to help his former Wall Street colleagues; his public warnings that disaster was imminent but that the evidence had to remain secret were reminiscent of antiterrorism officials who raised the threat level to orange...
...accustomed to jobs at the upper echelon of finance, the usual recruiting suspects remain alive, if not quite well. Indeed, of the behemoths that have gone under in the past months, only Lehman Brothers was a major recruiter at Harvard. The most sought-after financial recruiters—namely Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and Citigroup—have survived the recent turmoil and have shown their health by buying up the dismembered parts of other firms. If these three remain strong in the coming years (all, including Citi, remain well-capitalized) and businesses continue to have the need for management...
...well as about 200 university economists—including several from Harvard—are a handful of those who have vocally denounced Paulson’s bailout plan. Possibly more disturbing than the economic flaws of the program are the ethical issues. As the former CEO of Goldman Sachs, Paulson has a conflict of interest. It seems that it would be really difficult for Paulson—or anyone given control of $700 billion—to resist helping out his former business buddies. Not surprisingly, Goldman Sachs has much to gain under the plan. If none of these...