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calculatedrisk.blogspot.com - 10/6/2008

Report: UK Government Considering Plan to Recapitalize Banks

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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 worsens, The Daily Telegraph has learnt. The ...

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gregmankiw.blogspot.com - 10/9/2008

How to Recapitalize the Financial System

— gregmankiw.blogspot.com — There is broad agreement among economists that what the financial system needs is not only an injection... of liquidity but also a recapitalization. The essence of the current financial crisis is that many firms bet that housing prices would not fall; ... (more) How to Recapitalize the Financial System

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rgemonitor.com - 9/29/2008

Is Purchasing $700 billion of Toxic Assets the Best Way to Recapitalize the Financial System? ...

— rgemonitor.com — 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 ... (more) Is Purchasing $700 billion of Toxic Assets the Best Way ...

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online.wsj.com - 10/1/2008

We Need to Recapitalize the Banks

— online.wsj.com — When the speculative fever finally broke in America's housing industry and house prices began falling in search... of equilibrium levels, banks everywhere suffered defaults and subsequent losses on a range of assets. In short order, the housing ... (more) We Need to Recapitalize the Banks

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Quis spondebit ipsos sponsores?
self-evident — (My attempt at “Who will bail out the bailers?”) UK Government considering plan to recapitalize banks Hey, is it my imagination, or does Alistair Darling bear an uncanny resemblance to Barney Frank? Anyway…  The Brits seem to be considering the “Swedish model” rather than the “ex-Goldman CEO U.S. Treasury Sovereign Wealth Fund” model. Hypo Real Estate bailed out I do not know what “Hypo” is, exactly, but apparently it needed €5 x 1010 this ...

Other Governments Can Do This Right. Why Can't We?
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Calculated Risk: Report: UK Government Considering Plan to Recapitalize Banks: From the Telegraph: Financial crisis: Government could take shares in high street banks ...