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sabra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 10:01 AM Original message |
Toxic assets still festering ( TARP program has not relieved banks of their troubled loans) |
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PSPS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 10:18 AM Response to Original message |
1. Not to worry. The "PPIP" intends to foist all of this crap onto the taxpayers. |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-11-09 10:31 AM Response to Original message |
2. The TARP money was just a fraction of the "value" of the troubled assets. |
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jasi2006 (544 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 05:43 AM Response to Reply #2 |
43. How about the banks rid themselves of "toxic assests" by |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 09:11 AM Response to Reply #43 |
45. You are assuming there is some sort of rational thought process going on. |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 09:15 AM Response to Reply #45 |
46. The reason Paulson never wanted to explain his "plan" was that he never really had a plan. nt |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Original message |
3. US banks may need more govt support to cleanse bad assets |
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sendero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. What is happening.. |
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CoffeeCat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:09 AM Response to Reply #4 |
34. What did the banks DO with the bailout $$$? |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Screw that |
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jimmybama (90 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #5 |
13. Fuck em' |
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NMMOM (44 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:09 AM Response to Reply #13 |
33. Yeah. What jimmybama said! |
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SammyWinstonJack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 01:14 PM Response to Reply #13 |
49. +1 |
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KakistocracyHater (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:09 AM Response to Reply #5 |
31. significant economic disruption: Patriot Act has protocols for that |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Gee, who could have predicted this? nt |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #6 |
16. Nobody from posh colleges, apparently. |
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texastoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Then they should borrow some money from other banks |
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Aragorn (784 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #7 |
12. oh man |
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Owl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:09 AM Response to Reply #7 |
25. K&R |
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salin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. so they can use even more public $ to buy up more toxic assets and/or buy up other |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #8 |
19. The meek shall inherit the Earth... |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #3 |
9. No. No. No. HELL no. |
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mbperrin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. Right! HELL no! |
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Robb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #11 |
17. Heh. That's me, I guess. |
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mbperrin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:09 AM Response to Reply #17 |
28. Me, too, really. |
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jannyk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #3 |
10. Tell 'em to use the fucking Bonus payouts!!! |
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cornermouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #3 |
14. No. No more money. |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #14 |
20. Which, I thought, was the point of "free market"... |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #3 |
15. Banks are a symptom. NOT THE PROBLEM. |
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wickerwoman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 04:25 AM Response to Reply #15 |
36. Banks are part of the problem... |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 12:55 PM Response to Reply #36 |
48. Sounds brutal. |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 05:16 AM Response to Reply #15 |
42. You forgot the banks' zeal to make poor loans so that they could sell the lousy mortgages to |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 12:53 PM Response to Reply #42 |
47. Thanks for the reminder. |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #3 |
18. ? |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #3 |
21. Chavez nationalized the bad banks |
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WriteDown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #21 |
22. No... |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 05:00 AM Response to Reply #22 |
40. That would have been something to discuss BEFORE the |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:08 AM Response to Reply #21 |
23. I now wonder if I've been wrong about Chavez... |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:09 AM Response to Reply #23 |
24. And they don't realize that Medicare is a single payer system |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 04:56 AM Response to Reply #21 |
39. That's what Lindsey Graham and a few other Republicans were saying shortly after the bailout. |
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Skink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:09 AM Response to Reply #3 |
26. The article means they'll just tap into the slush fund I mean TARP... |
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MasonJar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:09 AM Response to Reply #3 |
27. No! They will not even insure that all Americans have health care. |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:09 AM Response to Reply #3 |
29. Meet our new welfare queens: banks |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:09 AM Response to Reply #3 |
30. And when is it that they're planning to re-regulate financial markets???????? |
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Libertas1776 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:09 AM Response to Reply #3 |
32. Fuck the Banks! |
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earcandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 02:09 AM Response to Reply #3 |
35. More goodwill if the government gives the money to the people to pay their debts to the bank |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 04:50 AM Response to Original message |
37. Who gives out a trillion bucks of money that is not their own, with almost no conditions? |
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Lagomorph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 04:52 AM Response to Original message |
38. Say the bank is... |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 05:03 AM Response to Reply #38 |
41. That's where they were BEFORE the bailout, except for the bonuses and junkets, but |
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Lagomorph (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Aug-12-09 06:43 AM Response to Reply #41 |
44. Good Question....nt |
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