Definitely agree with your general assessment of letting them fail . The original $700B bailout was to help move credit markets (though the gov should’ve also guaranteed x-amount in loans from foreign investors), but this is a whole …
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Not a bad week, over there, but the whole month was still the worst for years - back ’til 1987 . It seems that investors ignored bleak economic data and felt that the improvement in the troubled financial and credit markets were showing …
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Everyone who watched their stock portfolios get pummeled in early October can attest: We need a bailout ! If for nothing else but to create stability in the credit markets and investor confidence, the bailout was necessary. …
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A funny thing happened on the way to the bailout : Stocks tumbled, credit markets seized further, and the dollar rallied Thursday in the wake of Senate passage of the $700 billion bill.Of course, crisis breeds opportunity, …
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A funny thing happened on the way to the bailout : Stocks tumbled, credit markets seized further, and the dollar rallied Thursday in the wake of Senate passage of the $700 billion bill.Of course, crisis breeds opportunity, and many trade …
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Clark’s message on the eve of the bailout bill re-vote. Let community banks bid for your business. Biz, credit markets show how economic woes affect you. Bailout vote fails , so what’s next? Giant monster-mega banks to dominate new …
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The tragedy of Nancy Pelosi ’s self-serving and partisan speech on the failed legislation to restore the nation’s credit markets is that its technical content was largely correct. Had… [[ This is a content summary only. ...
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Just about every economist, regardless of political persuasion, warned that the so-called bailout up for a vote this afternoon was absolutely necessary to prevent a severe contraction of the credit markets and, therefore, the American …
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