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...federal government at no charge. In exchange, the government would then provide the banks with equity by taking stakes in banks that participate. The toxic assets would be placed in a state-owned bad bank and sold back to the banks at a later date when a market for such assets reemerges. "This ensures that the shareholders and not the taxpayers have to bear the initial costs of the failure," says Dorothea Schäfer, DIW head of research...
...that a government believes should have access to more capital? Since major financial firms operate in dozens of countries, there is no uniform set of answers to that question. The same holds true for leverage. Does a hedge fund create jobs and financial credit opportunities by helping to improve market liquidity though investments with complex insurance instruments like credit default swaps, or are these derivatives too risky to be allowed to trade freely? Since there is no way to come to an irrefutable conclusion about credit and leverage, any decision to regulate or not regulate is based on educated guesses...
...regulation ends up being a two-sided coin. One wears the face of the process of regulation, which has the attraction of costing almost nothing. The other represents the risk that the fruits of regulation could constrict financial market activity so significantly that it undermines the chances for ending the recession. The other argument that the U.S. will not win at the meeting is its position that the medicine of spending tens of billions of dollars to create jobs, cut taxes, and bailout banks is better than the side-effects of having a staggering national debt, a debt which revenue...
...with a minimal level of oversight for years. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s call for an expansion of financial regulation and increased transparency faces a long struggle through Congress but will prove a crucial framework for promoting future economic stability. Mangers at hedge funds and other unregulated market players are often reluctant to open their bets to scrutiny or reveal their positions in the market because doing so allows competitors to mirror trades and dilute profits. Many also view the paperwork and bureaucracy associated with tight regulations as time-consuming and expensive distractions from a funds?...
...highest form of civic duty. The newspaper industry certainly was, however, one of the plumpest cash cows in the landscape of American business for numerous decades. As local newspapers survived on classified advertising, the economics of the industry invariably led to a monopoly paper emerging in literally every local market as the strong got stronger. Warren Buffett compared owning the resulting enterprise to owning slot machines...