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Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner has a problem. On the one hand, he has to act to save the banks if he's going to start credit flowing and get the U.S. economy back on track. On the other hand, doing so makes him and his bosses look bad. Americans are against bailing out the banks by more than 2 to 1 in some polls. Worse, the banks themselves are deeply mistrustful of anything government might force on them. The head of Wells Fargo told Bloomberg on Monday that a key part of Geithner's plan, the so-called stress test...
...their money isn't being wasted is no easy task. Geithner has said the government may put up as much as $1 trillion in loans and guarantees to subsidize the sale of the toxic assets to private investors. Though the government could get back the money if the assets start trading again, many Americans see it going down a sinkhole. Says Democratic pollster Mark Mellman: "There's a narrative out there in the public mind that the government's bailing out banks" - in other words, helping rich bankers keep their summer homes. (See pictures of expensive Modernist houses...
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