The Mess That Greenspan Made: Oh dear!

Oh dear!

Friday, March 14, 2008

4 comments:

Anonymous said...: What?; March 14, 2008 12:49 PM
Anonymous said...: I suppose this will cost you guys more than Northern Rock has cost us guys. But for all of us, it's scarcely started. Oh dear.; March 14, 2008 5:15 PM
Anonymous said...: This is highly important:

HEDGE FUND OPERATIONS

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1998
U.S. House of Representatives,
Committee on Banking and Financial Services,
Washington, DC.

http://commdocs.house.gov/commit.../ hba51526_0.HTM

Let me just conclude by saying that the terms of the rescue package engendered by the Fed also raise troubling questions of financial concentration and antitrust. As a group working together, the new owners can have a greater impact on markets than in competition with one another. In this regard, it should be understood that the Fed's unprecedented extension of the too-big-to-fail doctrine to a hedge fund does not insulate the fund and its new owners from the constraints of the Sherman and Clayton acts.

The bailout may involve a tendency toward concentration that the Justice Department has an obligation to review.

>>>>>The Fed "arrangement" may be violating Fed antitrust laws!; March 14, 2008 11:20 PM
njdoc said...: An Old World Order!
Today's Fed actions led me to further think about the current state of our economic system. I have gone over in my mind numerous time about one fundamental question. Under what kind of system are we living? Is it Capitalism, Totalitarianism, Fascism, Communism or Socialism? Today's action provides the most direct evidence that our system has devolved back to FEUDALISM, or FEDALISM as it could be more aptly called today. This remarkable act of bailing out one investment bank so that their derivatives wouldn't have to be marked to market proves the oligarchical nature of our society. The Lords of Wall Street are under the protectarate of the FEDal system. We the fifes must go about our daily lives and hand over increasingly large sums of our hard earned "money" to ensure the "stability of the markets". What bonus should Mr. Schwartz receive from the taxpayers largesse? As the new Sheriff of Nottingham, Ben Bernanke, and his sidekick, Hank Paulson, go about their daily adventures in destruction of our savings by debasing our currency, we the fifes can only look upon these actions with disbelief. This is a supposed to be a democracy, yet all these decision take place behind closed door under dubious circumstances and have unknown future consequences. This has gone far enough. We should demand the immediate resignation of Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson, and start having some transparency in our markets. These ridiculous anti-Capitalism, anti-competitive, anti-free market, Save our Crony friends at any cost policies MUST STOP! Robin Hood, where are you?; March 15, 2008 8:34 AM

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