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...Debating what bankers should be paid would have taken weeks and perhaps months. Wall St.CEOs claim that a number of their key managers and traders did make a lot of money for their companies and would argue that these employees should not be responsible for the problems of the failing financial industry. CEOs have said that talented people who don't get paid well will leave. That is a good argument but it should have been clear, even then, that there would be nowhere for these highly paid people...
...Paulson and Representative Frank could have put in a number of rules the day the TARP cleared Congress. Frank agreed to an oversight commission that would review how the money had been spent, after it was spent. By doing that he simply wasted the time of this commission. It became nothing more than witnesses to recent history...
...fourth quarter number was helped somewhat by a build-up in inventories. Real final sales for domestic product, which excludes inventories, decreased 5.1% in the fourth quarter. This is the biggest drop since 1980. (See pictures of the 1958 recession...
...joblessness situation is that grim, the price of homes is likely to be falling even more sharply than last year and more mortgages are headed under water. Default and foreclose rates are bound to jump higher. Consumer confidence, which is already remarkably bad, will be exacerbated by the number of people out of work and the lack of credit to buy even the most essential items...
...fourth quarter GDP number may have been a little better than expected. Joblessness and a bleeding off of some of that overstocked inventory spell a historic drop...