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Uncle Sam the Loan Shark
I must admit - I’m totally dumbfounded and stunned today by the article I read in the Wall Street Journal entitled, “The Paulson Plan will make Money,” by Andy Kessler. Essentially, Kessler’s argument is that somehow in all of this mess, the money spent in the proposed financial intervention plan before Congress will actually result in a windfall to the taxpayer in potentially trillions of dollars. This argument is fundamentally flawed - for it if were true, there would be no investment/financial services crisis to force the government’s hand.
Reform, not Rescue… Buy in, not Bail Out.
This is a restructuring, not a rescue. It’s a buy in, not a bailout. Congress and the White House need to realize that this effort’s main goal is the stabilization of the financial markets and the recapitalization of the financial system. It is not the time to take the taxpayer’s money and give it to Wall Street. It is not the time to take the taxpayer’s money and give it to homeowners who can’t pay their mortgages. We’re taking the taxpayers money and correcting an error we should have corrected over five years ago - making the markets more transparent and ensuring that people who benefit from risky deals also assume the downside to those deals when they go bad.
Reserve Money Market Fund Collapses as Lehman default spreads through the market’s balance sheets.
The “Reserve Primary Fund”, just saw its shares fall below $1 a share. For all intensive purposes - this means that the money market fund has collapsed. This is the first, and perhaps most cataclysmic implosion following the wake of Lehman Brother’s collapse Monday morning.
Scott the Liar, the fool, or the prophet?
From my posting today at thenextright.com:
As a former political appointee myself - I understand the frustration, pain, and anger that Scott McClellan undoubtedly felt (and probably still feels) after the “hangover” of getting out. You lament the opportunities missed, the things you messed up, and the things you wished you could have gotten right. The [...]
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