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aleablog.com - 5/27/2009
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Slow posting for a few days, busy. A AAA excuse for Obama tax hikes? Auction the TARP Warrants Twice Shy On Structured Products? Thirteen Aspects to our Current Economic Situation Anti-market banking What does Oxford’s professor of poetry do? Why my mom ...
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Twice Shy On Structured Products?
— online.wsj.com — Wall Street burned thousands of investors with so-called structured products that were supposed to provide healthy profits... and limit losses. Brokers, hoping investors' memories are short, are pushing these high-fee products again with safety as the ... (more) Twice Shy On Structured Products?
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Dealbreaker — ... warrants). The reality is that the TARP has been far more useful to the Treasury and the Administration in general as a cudgel than as a stimulus and bank support program. Donald's first and last points are, in fact, bugs, not features to a Treasury that, for example, negotiates the results of stress tests with its regulatees. Of course, it would be interesting if The Big Guy financed minimum pricing limits on the warrants. [Donald Marron via Alea] ...

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