nytimes.com - 3/26/2009
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Bankers and traders have begun the complex financial calculus of the latest bank rescue plan, with a goal of finding ways to profit from it.
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 3/21/2009
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Why was I so quick to condemn the
Geithner plan? Because it's not new; it's just another...
version of an idea that keeps coming up and keeps being refuted. It's basically a thinly disguised version of the same plan Henry Paulson announced way back in ...
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hf-implode.com - 3/23/2009
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Timmy's plan, advocated, straight from the horse's mouth.
Note that when he says the "Treasury, the FDIC...
and the Fed" are going to put money into this, that the Treasury has no money -- it can only borrow. The FDIC almost has no money and is just about broke from paying for bank failures. ...
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Geithner - My Plan for Bad Bank Assets
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How Banks, ETFs Stand To Benefit From Bailout Plan
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ETF Banking After the announcements that our financial problems will be inundated with more money, investors are scrambling to find ways to squeeze out all they can from the rescue plan, which may hopefully rejuvenate the financial sector and exchange traded funds (ETFs). Banking executives are calculating the best way to utilize the Treasury proposal to sell their troubled assets while traders and small hedge funds are pondering the likelihood of buying them, reports Graham Bowley and Mary Williams Walsh for ...
How Banks, ETFs Stand To Benefit From Bailout Plan
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How Banks, ETFs Stand To Benefit From Bailout Plan By Tom Lydon on March 27, 2009 | More Posts By Tom Lydon | Author's Website After the announcements that our financial problems will be inundated with more money, investors are scrambling to find ways to squeeze out all they can from the rescue plan, which may hopefully rejuvenate the financial sector and exchange traded funds (ETFs). Banking executives are calculating the best way to utilize the Treasury proposal to sell their troubled assets while traders and small hedge funds are pondering the likelihood of buying them, reports Graham Bowley and Mary Williams Walsh for The New York ...
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