[lbo-talk] Yves Smith's very grim view of the bailout's chance ofsuccess

Charles A. Grimes cgrimes at rawbw.com
Wed Sep 24 11:13:27 PDT 2008


That's essentially Julio's plan (MP):

``...If these calculation are roughly accurate, the Treasury could--not buy those assets from the financial firms that hold them, directly or as underlying of derivative assets, but -- locate the original issuers of the mortgages (the subprime borrowers) and help them make the monthly payments for the next 10 years....'' Julio

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Missed that. Sure why not? I am not sure what housing systems are in the CFDS, but I would bet hidden in there or HUD or FHA are model systems to do just that. I also thought a little about Julio's suggestion, without knowing it. I was thinking fuck the little view of this problem, let's go big and overhaul the whole system and work in a wealth re-distribution sytem through the tax system...

But if we were just negociating, I'd compromise with you and Julio, and save the more thorough going overhault later when things calm down a bit and a better understanding of how to go about such an overhaul.

CG



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