Comments for Infinite Jeff http://www.infinitejeff.com Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:41:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 Comment on TARP II: This time, it’s completely hopeless by Infinite Jeff » Second star to the right, and straight on till morning http://www.infinitejeff.com/permalink/2009/02/tarp-ii-this-time-its-completely-hopeless/comment-page-1/#comment-10 Infinite Jeff » Second star to the right, and straight on till morning Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:07:01 +0000 http://www.infinitejeff.com/?p=558#comment-10 [...] governance icon Lucian Bebchuk gives his directions to Public-Private Neverland in “How to Make TARP II Work,” a proposed structure for private sector investors to [...] [...] governance icon Lucian Bebchuk gives his directions to Public-Private Neverland in “How to Make TARP II Work,” a proposed structure for private sector investors to [...]

]]> Comment on Rotten tomatoes for TARP II by Matt http://www.infinitejeff.com/permalink/2009/02/rotten-tomatoes-for-tarp-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Matt Fri, 13 Feb 2009 17:03:29 +0000 http://www.infinitejeff.com/?p=596#comment-9 Actually. Matthew Yglesias wins. "I say we go further and call [nationalization] 'awesome capitalist cowboys' just to ensure that everything’s really in tune with American cultural norms. Everyone loves cowboys!" Actually. Matthew Yglesias wins.

“I say we go further and call [nationalization] ‘awesome capitalist cowboys’ just to ensure that everything’s really in tune with American cultural norms. Everyone loves cowboys!”

]]> Comment on Rotten tomatoes for TARP II by Matt http://www.infinitejeff.com/permalink/2009/02/rotten-tomatoes-for-tarp-ii/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Matt Thu, 12 Feb 2009 01:54:28 +0000 http://www.infinitejeff.com/?p=596#comment-8 Dr. Doom actually seems to be a tad more optimistic here, if you can call it that. His thinking is that nationalization is most likely the only answer, but because that word is apparently real scary the only choice Geithner has is to try something that has a minuscule chance of working just so he could later say he at least tried to avoid Sweden-ing. Roubini also thinks the current bullshit non-existent plan plan is going to bring us super close to a depression before we can give up and turn to nationalization later this year. Somehow that is still more optimistic than Yves Smith or Martin Wolf though. I think Calculated Risk is onto something - just call nationalization "preprivatization" and problem solved. Roubini - http://www.rgemonitor.com/roubini-monitor/255507/it_is_time_to_nationalize_insolvent_banking_systems Dr. Doom actually seems to be a tad more optimistic here, if you can call it that. His thinking is that nationalization is most likely the only answer, but because that word is apparently real scary the only choice Geithner has is to try something that has a minuscule chance of working just so he could later say he at least tried to avoid Sweden-ing. Roubini also thinks the current bullshit non-existent plan plan is going to bring us super close to a depression before we can give up and turn to nationalization later this year. Somehow that is still more optimistic than Yves Smith or Martin Wolf though.

I think Calculated Risk is onto something - just call nationalization “preprivatization” and problem solved.

Roubini - http://www.rgemonitor.com/roubini-monitor/255507/it_is_time_to_nationalize_insolvent_banking_systems

]]> Comment on Pricing nationalization risk by Infinite Jeff » TARP II: This time, it’s completely hopeless http://www.infinitejeff.com/permalink/2009/02/pricing-nationalization-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-7 Infinite Jeff » TARP II: This time, it’s completely hopeless Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:05:59 +0000 http://www.infinitejeff.com/?p=540#comment-7 [...] for a shareholder bailout that the market now sees no alternative to nationalization.  This (I submit) is why the big banks’ share prices dropped like they did today.  At the [...] [...] for a shareholder bailout that the market now sees no alternative to nationalization.  This (I submit) is why the big banks’ share prices dropped like they did today.  At the [...]

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