Monday, October 13, 2008

TARP goes to WARP speed, to avoid scrutiny

YIPPEE! DUE TO UNQUANTIFIED, ASSERTED 'SYSTEMIC RISK', YOU NOW OWN SHARES IN FAILING BANKS

Instead of owning real-estate, by buying up defaulted mortgages, we're going to own banks and ... all the bank managements that we've come do love, over these days.

I love my AIG. Those guys have got it going on!

ORWELLIAN DOUBLE-SPEAK FROM BUSH ADMINISTRATION

It even lands on the front pages of the New York Times.

Savor this. Dividends "don't count", because they are not ... paid out of earnings.

The goal is to inject massive liquidity into the banking system. The government will purchase perpetual preferred shares in all the largest U.S. banking companies. The shares will not be dilutive to current shareholders, a concern to banking chief executives, because perpetual preferred stock holders are paid a dividend, not a portion of earnings.


HUMOR IN UNIFORM

It it too soon to start calling Paulson's go-to guy "Cash-and-Carry"?

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