Don’t touch the equity
My view is that it’s not over yet. Whatever things are happening (Brown bailout of UK banks, US bailout of US banks, EU bailout of EU banks), it’s not the ninth inning yet.
The crisis is moving from wall street into main street. Consumers are stretched, a lot of corporates are doomed to fail or suffer […]
Meltdown Monday
It was another black Monday for Wall Street after the Congress hasn’t passed the mother of all bailouts. I will skip the details, as the whole press world is doing already a very good job at covering what’s happening.
Just one quick point. The Dow closed at the very bottom, lacking the support of the short […]
The 1.8 trillion dollars bailout
CNBC has made an interesting analysis on the US government bailout of the financial crisis.
It’s not just 700bn$, more like 1.8trn$. Quick laundry list:
700bn$ recently announced plan to buy assets from bank
150bn$ MBS purchase by Fannie and Freddie
85bn$ for AIG
90bn$ in repayment to JPM for Lehman
200bn$ for Freddie and Fannie
300bn$ for FHA
200bn$ of currently outstanding […]