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optionarmageddon.ml-implode.com - 10/16/2008
What Price Financial Stability?
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Brad Setser recently commented: “All major financial institutions in the G-10 ultimately now have access — through their national central bank — to the Fed.” To avoid another Lehman style bankruptcy, the Fed has basically guaranteed, well, the worldwide banking system. The problem ...
bloomberg.com - 10/11/2008
Paulson Indicates Need to Purchase Bank Equity `Soon as We Can'
— bloomberg.com — Paulson Indicates Need to Purchase Bank Equity `Soon as We Can' By John Brinsley and Rebecca Christie... Oct. 11 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson indicated that pumping government funds into banks is a priority and said financial ... (more) Paulson Indicates Need to Purchase Bank Equity `Soon as ...

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bloomberg.com - 10/10/2008
Paulson Says Will Buy Bank Equity `Soon as We Can' (Update3)
— bloomberg.com — Paulson Says Will Buy Bank Equity `Soon as We Can' (Update3) By John Brinsley and Rebecca Christie... Oct. 10 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the U.S. will buy equity ``as soon as we can'' in banks and other financial ... (more) Paulson Says Will Buy Bank Equity `Soon as We Can' ...

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econlog.econlib.org - 10/12/2008
Oh, No!
— econlog.econlib.org — (October 11, 2008 10:36 PM, by Arnold Kling) The Wall Street Journal reports, The government's plan to... buy equity in financial institutions, announced Friday by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, is an idea that many academic economists have championed ... (more) Oh, No!

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THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 16 October 2008
FiNTAG - Hedge Fund News, Views, Opinions and Gossip — ... Fintag says 1 in 5. That ain't too bad. And the rest are mostly outperforming the S&P; 500? Not really. Hedge Fund performance is as volatile as the Dow. WHAT PRICE FINANCIAL STABILITY? optionarmageddon ...

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