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Directly investing in the banks allows Paulson to get the money to where it is needed the fastest, which would then allow well-capitalized banks to loosen the strings of lending. Nationalization? Not quite. Under such a plan, the U.S. would become a shareholder in banks, taking stock in exchange...
A number of Britons began moving their money to these apparently safer havens, but that's not what triggered the precipitous slide in bank shares on Oct. 6. Ironically, it was leaking news of the British government's still unfinished rescue plan that caused mayhem in the markets. The government...
That was one reason so many Americans regarded Hank Paulson's bailout plan with skepticism. And it's why Britain's Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his Chancellor, Alistair Darling, did not want to dwell Wednesday morning on how Britain's banking sector had got into such a parlous state...
"Remember markets are global," an anxious Treasury official reminded journalists leaving the building after a briefing as word filtered through that the formal announcement of the rescue package had failed to immediately restore optimism in the market. At market close, London's FTSE-100 index had fallen by 5.18%, even...
Maybe so; Brown cuts a convincing figure abroad. But he finds it harder back home to win over doubters to a plan that could cost British taxpayers dearly, though he promises they may eventually earn dividends from the investments backed with their own money. Yet the crisis has had a...