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The Fed is guaranteeing TO JPMorgan that it will not lose money from BSC's liabilities - ie the Fed directly takes the risk of all the skeletons that can be found in BSC's books, instead of JPMorgan.

The liquidity injections of the recent past, while they are subsidies of sort, are at least loans to banks that are still, in principle, able to pay them back, and would wipe our these banks' shareholders if claimed.

JPMorgan shareholders are taking little risk in this case. The Fed should have gotten some shares in JPMorgan to back that guarantee.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (jeromeguillet@yahoo.fr) on Wed Mar 19th, 2008 at 12:18:30 PM EST
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We should have gotten billions of $ worth of shares before we did this-if anybody gave a damn about anything other than bailing out the wealthy.

"I said, 'Wait a minute, Chester, You know I'm a peaceful man...'" Robbie Robertson
by NearlyNormal on Wed Mar 19th, 2008 at 04:48:22 PM EST
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