We are not close to being Swedish yet
brontecapital.blogspot.com 2/20/2009 — 2 comments: Swedish Lex said... Great post! > I worked 24/7 for a couple of years with the Swedish crisis as a commercial lawyer in Stockholm. Close members of my family were involved in politics/government and contributed to the design what became ...

An alternative solution
krugman.blogs.nytimes.com 10/17/2008 — Pop economics Recession-Plagued Nation Demands New Bubble To Invest In. No Tags

Report: UK Government Considering Plan to Recapitalize Banks
calculatedrisk.blogspot.com 10/6/2008 — From the Telegraph: Financial crisis: Government could take shares in high street banks Alistair Darling, the Chancellor, could give the banks billions of pounds in return for shares in an emergency bailout plan to be enacted if the financial crisis ...

Is Purchasing $700 billion of Toxic Assets the Best Way to Recapitalize the Financial System? No! It is Rather a Disgrace and Rip-Off Benefitting only the Shareholders and Unsecured Creditors of Banks
rgemonitor.com 9/29/2008 — Whenever there is a systemic banking crisis there is a need to recapitalize the banking/financial system to avoid an excessive and destructive credit contraction. But purchasing toxic/illiquid assets of the financial system is not the most effective ...

The ‘Good Bank’ Solution
blogs.ft.com 1/29/2009 — In its January Global Financial Stability Report Market Update (published January 28, 2009), the IMF has raised their estimate of credit losses from bad assets originated in the US and held by US and European banks to $2.2 trillion (from $1.4 trillion ...

Dean Baker on the Swedish Model
delong.typepad.com 10/1/2008 — The Fabulous Baker Boy writes, somewhere on Josh Marshall's TPM. My one complaint is that if Obama had won then the TARP would not have been "a $700 billion giveaway to Wall Street." Only if McCain had won--and only if McCain's Treasury Secretary was ...

Does Anybody Really Have a Solution?
thewildinvestor.com 3/2/2009 — I was listening to the musing tales of Bobby Jindal the other day, when I realized we spend much of our time listening to people who really don’t want to tell us anything. Think about it. For roughly the last year the United States was pushing its way through an old fashion high school ...

Dear Hank and Ben: HERE IS THE SOLUTION
clusterstock.com 9/30/2008 — It makes the banks deal with their own problems. If they can't, so be it. Their shareholders and bondholders suffer, but their customers don't. It is eliminates the need for the government to hire fund managers to manage a portfolio of crap assets. It ...