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Sat Oct 11

• FT.com / Comment & analysis / Analysis - Temporary full state ownership is only solution (9-10-08)
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Fri Oct 10

• "Temporary full state ownership is only solution: (10-10-08)
• Real capitalists nationalize (Waldman, "Interfluidity "): "Temporar y nationalizatio n could serve as a kind of fast-track bankruptcy. Creditors, counterparties , and customers would have some certainty that firms in conservatorshi p would continue to function, and most could expect to be made whole (although the state could and should force haircuts or debt-to-equity conversions on the some junior claimants).&qu ot; Via Ezra Klein.
• U.S. Considers Cash Injections Into Banks - NYTimes.com: Acknowledging that such steps would not seem to fit into President Bush?s free-market philosophy [...] Some are also calling for governments worldwide to provide another round of economic stimulus through expensive public works projects.[...] ?regime change.? This regime change refers to a change in the economic environment so radical that, at least for a while, economic policy makers will need to suspend what are usually sacred principles: minimal interference in free markets, gradualism and predictability .[...] ?The core problem is that the smart people are realizing that the banking system is broken,?
• The End Of American Capitalism? - washingtonpost .com: The government 9;s about-face goes beyond the banking industry. It is reasserting itself in the lives of citizens in ways that were unthinkable in the era of market-knows-b est thinking. With the recent takeovers of major lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the bailout of AIG, the U.S. government is now effectively responsible for providing home mortgages and life insurance to tens of millions of Americans. Many economists are asking whether it remains a free market if the government is so deeply enmeshed in the financial system.
• The End Of American Capitalism?

Thu Oct 9

• Text of British support plan for banks - MarketWatch: The UK government is providing an additional GBP200bn under the Special Liquidity Scheme and additionally will provide capital if necessary to any of eight institutions that have committed to increase their Tier 1 capital bases by an aggregate of GBP25bn. Government would take preference shares in exchange for capital and says it is "willing to assist in the raising of ordinary equity" -- one wonders if the releases will list HM Treasury as joint bookrunners with Goldman. Government will also backstop "new short and medium term debt issuance," ; ostensibly to restart interbank lending, for institutions that meet its capital criteria.
• Calculated Risk: Reuters: Treasury may recapitalize banks this month
• U.S. May Take Ownership Stake in Banks - NYTimes.com: THE US NATIONALIZING BANKS!!!

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