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The Demise Of TARP?
Nov 12, 2008, 10:36am
Posted by Equity Private
Live Blogging The Bald on the Tarp.... Let us begin. 10:32am: Mark Haines is blowing a gasket. The address hasn't even begun and a sudden vomitious belch of class warfare spews forth from his mouth including these tidbits: "Bush has...
TARP for MBIA?
Oct 24, 2008, 1:56pm
Posted by Equity Private
I'm sure there is someone less deserving of Treasury assistance than the likes of MBIA. There are, after all, still some felons out there that could use a couple extra million. Still, since everyone else is slurping at the bailout...
Neel Kashkari: Seven Hundred Billion Dollar Baller
Oct 06, 2008, 9:37am
Posted by Equity Private
I don't care how many zeros you had on your Schedule K-1 form last quarter, it doesn't get even remotely close to the ballerishness implicit in wielding so many blank checks with the logo of the United States Treasury in...
Submitted Without Comment: Market Meets The House
Oct 03, 2008, 1:33pm
Posted by Equity Private
Chart after the jump....
$650 $700 $500 $800 $250 Billion in Bail Money
Oct 02, 2008, 3:57pm
Posted by Equity Private
A group of Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives said on Thursday they would seek an amendment to significantly reduce the size of a $700 billion Wall Street bailout package headed for a House vote soon. Seriously, it's always...
Top 10 New And Improved Buyout Bill Section Headings
Oct 01, 2008, 5:42pm
Posted by Equity Private
Temporary Increase In Coal Excise Tax: Funding of Black Lung Disability Trust Fund Tax Credit for Carbon Dioxide Sequestration New Qualified Plug-in Electric Drive Motor Vehicles Exclusion From Heavy Truck Tax for Idling Reduction Units and Advanced Insulation Transportation...
Coming Soon: "Protections," For Your Protection
Oct 01, 2008, 5:15pm
Posted by Equity Private
This kind of vague sort of quote is really maddening. Specifically, Bloomberg reports: U.S. regulators are likely to extend a ban on short-sales of financial stocks and is considering new protections for all publicly traded companies, NYSE Euronext Chief Executive...
DealBreaker Afterdark: Very Well, Secret Ballots It Is, at Sundown
Oct 01, 2008, 3:57am
Posted by Equity Private
Does anyone else think it overly dramatic to have scheduled the second Bailout Bill vote for "sundown?" Or is it just that the people running copy at CNN.com are morons? As if that were not enough: The legislation also includes...
Liquidity Versus Solvency: Part II
Sep 29, 2008, 6:10pm
Posted by Equity Private
Decent commentary on the bailout is hard to come by. Certainly most "financial press" fails to fit the bill. It is a pleasant surprise, then, to see Posner describe the issues with something like clarity and aplomb. A complicating factor...
Blogging Bush. Wow, That Was Fast.
Sep 26, 2008, 9:44am
Posted by Equity Private
We expected Bush to go crazy nuts and talk on and on and on. Boy were we surprised. 9:40:11 AM ohbabyitsbess: bushie in the house 9:41:15 AM ohbabyitsbess: "we have a big problem" [pause for smirk] 9:41:20 AM ohbabyitsbess: "we...
Perverse Incentives
Sep 25, 2008, 11:29am
Posted by Equity Private
We've had a cautious eye on Clusterstock since our old friend John Carney went over there to do "mature work." (It better pay better, because where's the fun in that?) Seems voyeuristic of us though, doesn't it? Spying on our...
What Happened Around 11:30?
Sep 23, 2008, 1:55pm
Posted by Equity Private
Oh yeah. Chart after The Jump....
Liveblogging (Sort Of) The Bailout Hearings
Sep 23, 2008, 11:33am
Posted by Equity Private
Paulson and The Beard are facing the panel. What glee! 11:30: Lots of hammering away on the issue of mortgage foreclosure assistance. If the issue was bad lending, the argument goes, why aren't we doing more for foreclosure assistance? What...
For the Tin Foil Crowd: Collateral Damage
Sep 23, 2008, 10:49am
Posted by Equity Private
Nationalizing healthcare or healthcare insurance is pretty much off the table at this point no matter who gets elected. Wall Street put the brakes on that very quickly by removing any prospect of getting it funded. Who says you have...
(Prematurely) Grading The Bailout
Sep 23, 2008, 9:06am
Posted by Equity Private
In the wake of the worst single day performance on the Euro stage in recent memory for the Dollar, you might sit up and take notice. Of course, an injection of $700 billion is going to impact the dollar however...
A Primer On The Mortgage Bailout Bill
Posted in Mortgages, Jul 28, 2008, 11:12am
Posted by John Carney
Over the weekend the Senate overwhelmingly passed a the mortgage bailout bill that includes a government rescue plan for mortgage finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, grants to states to subsidize local real estate markets and extends government protections...
