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...government's $700 billion bailout plan is in the hands of this man. Neel Kashkari, a relatively green assistant secretary in the Treasury department, will be responsible for the government's purchasing of billions of dollars of bad assets from banks and other financial agencies. His career has been a short...
...When he does anything, if you ask him to make an electric car or ask him to plan an outing to Niagara Falls, he is so meticulous."-Chaman Kashkari, father, USA Today, October...
Back at Ganley Chevrolet, the dealership's bank announced in a meeting yesterday morning that it will increase the floor plan rate - the interest on money that car dealers borrow to buy new inventory - by 1.5%. "Which forces me to have less inventory on hand," says Jim Helton, the general manager. "That makes it harder for me to sell cars, because I'm giving people fewer choices." The dealership's owners were planning this summer to spend millions of dollars on a complete renovation and expansion of the façade, showroom and service area. Rising credit costs, combined with...
...indefatigable Paulson, along with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, this week unveiled a slew of new initiatives to try and restore confidence in the markets. On Tuesday, Bernanke unveiled a plan to try and gig the frozen market for commercial paper, offering to loan companies unlimited amounts of money three months at a time, sometimes with little or no collateral, a move unseen since the Great Depression. And at the Treasury, Paulson appointed a 35-year-old former Goldman Sachs banker as temporary head of the agency charged with using the $700 billion to lift bad loans...
...Germany's refusal to sign on to a Continent-wide bailout plan was no less necessary, says Schmidt. Such a plan would have triggered a backlash in Germany against the E.U., egged on by the ready arguments of the anti-Europe German press that Germans were paying to bail out other Europeans, he says. "It would have destroyed the idea of European integration," he says...