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I'd develop, so to speak, Cambio Chavez.

Let 'em go bankrupt. Fuck 'em. Then buy out a few choice firms lock, stock n barrel --the BoA Option, only the "nice" assets-- with US debt, since US has no funds. Contract, say, Robert Half International to recommend management hires and retain labor, pending redundancies. Run the whole damn thing NON-PROFIT to repurchase treasuries, THEN run 'em FOR PROFIT to competete with FRB subsidiaries.

That's the way a government TRUST does business.

Pay dividends to common shareholders, ya know, all the contribution defined 401(*) plan participants who currently believe their "retirement" mutual funds --strictly capital gains, mind you, on cash out-- are sufficient living wage beyond one year.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

by Cat on Thu Sep 25th, 2008 at 08:00:33 PM EST
In other words, if the problem is that the banks are providing a vital service to the economy, then it doesn't follow that those organizations' actual shareholders and managers are also necessary for this service. Once they crash and burn, the infrastructure can be recuperated on the cheap, restaffed, repurposed, and government run with much more reasonable salaries all around, and an ethical mission statement.

You know, if they take too long to crash and burn, it might make sense to declare war on the financial meltdown and let the military commandeer the banks for a few years ;)

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by martingale on Thu Sep 25th, 2008 at 10:38:27 PM EST
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it's quite ironic you said that, because what paulson inc. is trying to pull off is no less than a coup d'etat, without a gun or a uniform in sight, (though i suspect they are under the table in case things go pearshaped).

just as seeing all the lawyers and magistrates out in pakistan this last year gave a new twist to 'street protest', this gives new meaning to the term 'coup d'etat'.

the proof to me is in the fine print, the unaccountability...this is where the mask of democracy flakes off completely.

we're asking nicely....

there's no need for bloodshed of the old 'hack'n'hemorrhage' variety, with inflation our removing a few cc's of blood from your veins daily, and your children's, and their childrens', you'll barely feel a thing.

one of the reasons life has been so hard for so many these last decades (of peacetime), is costs of past wars amortised to a penny a day for everyone, on and on and on, paying back the interest on loans to buy weapons, that kill people (future productivity), and destroy infrastructure (architecture is living history)....

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri Sep 26th, 2008 at 10:44:51 AM EST
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harumph. ahem. Yes, well said. Thank you. My inner shark carried me away somewhere.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Fri Sep 26th, 2008 at 11:23:09 AM EST
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There's nothing wrong with "tough love", I'm partial to it :) Does your inner shark have fricken' laser beams on its head?

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by martingale on Fri Sep 26th, 2008 at 08:16:35 PM EST
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Evidently not.

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
by Cat on Sun Sep 28th, 2008 at 01:05:34 PM EST
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