Date: October 21st, 2008

Banks, paying your rescuer: Part 2, the fine print

21 October, 2008 (11:58) | GSEs, Policy, Subprime, TARP, US News | No comments

[Continued from yesterday’s Part 1.]
 
Yesterday we recorded the Godfather-like meeting, described in the New York Times, held last week in Treasury’s offices, in which the financial rescue’s architects, headed by Secretary Paulson, made the big banks an offer they couldn’t refuse.
 

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