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...makes him and his bosses look bad. Americans are against bailing out the banks by more than 2 to 1 in some polls. Worse, the banks themselves are deeply mistrustful of anything government might force on them. The head of Wells Fargo told Bloomberg on Monday that a key part of Geithner's plan, the so-called stress test, was "asinine." (Read "Can Your Bank Pass the Stress Test...
Among other key questions: What percentage of the purchase price will the government fund? A senior Administration official said as much as 80% of the purchase price could be government money, but the number has not yet been fixed. And who gets to keep the profit, if there is any? Does Uncle Sam let the private player keep it all, or does the government get some? How and when does the private player have to repay the government loan? And what if the toxic asset stays worthless - does the private buyer lose his money first, or does the government...
...looks like "All Fools Day" will come early on Wall Street this year. Several banks are going to try to raise the base salaries of key employees to dodge the Federal Government's mandate to cut big bonuses at firms which have received bailout money. If increasing base payouts did not so obviously flaunt the intent of the programs that Congress and the Administration are putting into place, the plan would be brilliant...
...key elements of the IRS's guidance focus on investors being entitled to a theft loss deductible in the year the fraud is discovered, except to the extent there is a claim with a reasonable prospect of recovery...
...key date for Madoff victims will be Dec. 31, 2007, according to Tipograph, the starting point for the theft loss calculation and not the partial year balance of 2008. Madoff was arrested on Dec. 11, 2008 and many victims received statements only through Sept...