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...When the major banks and brokers got their first chunk of TARP money in October, everyone intimately involved in the process was aware of how Wall St. compensation works. But, the only conversations about salaries and bonuses were directed at the CEOs of the big firms. The cognoscenti knew that top traders and investment bankers often made much more than their bosses...
...government walked away from the entire matter because it was complex and time consuming. This is the same reason that the Treasury Department wrote checks to the banks instead of buying their toxic assets even though Congress had been told that the TARP funds would only be used to buy toxic assets. It was quicker and easier to just give the banks money because of the worsening crisis...
...time to talk about how it could be improved and to criticize what is not yet set in stone. Instead of spending this money for infrastructure projects to create jobs, it should go immediately to inject capital into the failing real estate market. Instead of purchasing toxic assets with TARP funds, the government should now begin to purchase residential and commercial real estate that is for sale to stop the destruction of property values. Last month the value of housing in the top 20 cities fell more than...
...consensus forms on what to do with the second half of the $700 billion bank rescue fund approved by Congress in early October, he may be waiting awhile. Economists, Wall Streeters and industry analysts are split on how best to spend what remains in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which has done anything but offer relief...
What's clear is that Geithner, unlike his predecessor Henry Paulson, does not face a growing chorus of voices calling for a particular plan. Initially, Paulson was reportedly in favor of spending TARP money to buy up troubled assets. But shortly after the bank rescue fund passed Congress, a flood of economists came out against Paulson's plan. Instead, most policy experts advocated a plan to inject capital into the banks by buying preferred shares. The latter strategy would be quicker to implement and would do a better job of stimulating lending. Britain was instituting a similar plan...