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...1930s. To stop the institutional run on money markets, Paulson announced on Sept. 19 an insurance fund for them that would be backed up by funds usually reserved for currency stabilization. The AIG and Merrill Lynch interventions were attempts to dissolve failing companies in an orderly fashion without panic, as was the Wachovia bailout. The opening of the discount window to investment banks was the first effort to provide access to a lender of last resort. As for regulation, that will have to be something the Fed, Treasury, SEC and Congress tackle after the crisis crests...
...traditional banking system by incentivizing those bad loans. Fueled by the shadow system's demand for loan-based derivatives, enough regular banks issued lousy loans that now they too are failing, hence the fate of Washington Mutual and Wachovia. In the worst case of an unchecked, full-blown panic, even banks that operated cautiously within the post-1929 safeguards could be vulnerable. At that point, Paulson and Bernanke would have to resort to even more extreme measures...
...Weiss believes these banks are far less likely to run aground than the panic-induced price of credit-default swaps would suggest. But since the demise of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, "people have no idea how sound banks are," he says, so "the whole financial system is locking up." The U.S. government's rescue plan should help, and Weiss thinks there's a fair chance that the busted assets it's buying to prop up the system will rise sharply in value as everything stabilizes. But he's by no means confident that the $700 billion bet will...
...Given this extreme uncertainty, Weiss is sitting on more cash than ever before. One reason is that he expects further mayhem as leveraged hedge funds are hit increasingly hard by margin calls and shareholder redemptions, forcing them to sell investments to raise cash. Yet amid the panic, Weiss admits he's turning bullish: "People are freaking out, and it's a good time to make money when everybody is freaking out." One shell-shocked area where he's finding extraordinary bargains: illiquid funds with troubled investments in property. "You might very well lose all your money," says Weiss, "but there...
...Masaaki Kanno, chief economist at JPMorgan Securities in Japan, summed up the frantic day in Asia. "Investor sentiment is in panic," Kanno said over the prospect of the spreading financial crisis dragging the global economy into a severe recession. The latest economic indicators are fueling this loss of confidence. For example, Japan's corporate bankruptcies jumped 34% in September, the largest increase since 2000, according to Tokyo Shoko Research...