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What you are suggesting is that because the system seems to be getting healthier, the banks think the price for the toxic assets is not high enough...
...test again for the system is, Are banks able to raise equity? Are investors confident enough in their ability to judge the strength of the banks' balance sheets that they're willing to put equity into a bank? We've seen substantial progress in that area. Now we're still going to put in place these facilities for legacy assets because we think they are good insurance against the risk of a future downturn, and we think they provide some broad help to this process of thawing receding credit markets. If the world gets progressively better, you may see less...
What do you want the banking system to look like five years from now? The government has talked about how we want to have more, smaller players. But it seems as if we will end up with a few big elephants...
...want a little less drama. One of the great strengths of our system is that we have 8,000 to 9,000 banks, and we have not just these large institutions but a very diverse mix of regional and local community banks across the country, and that made our system in this crisis more resilient. I don't think that we want to end up with a more concentrated system than we have today...
...article on health-care reform, Karen Tumulty states the health industry needs a "cultural and economic revolution" [June 15]. I cannot agree more. But in her discussion of the five big health-care dilemmas, she omitted two key financial advantages of a single-payer system: dramatic reduction in administrative costs and elimination of profit. A single-payer system would immediately make hundreds of billions of dollars available to purchase health care and give everyone access without increasing taxes or costs to employers. Hospitals, physicians and other providers could be paid more appropriately, and the benefits package could be expanded. Such...