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I have also been struck by how people have enphasised the need for shareholders to lose out (and they indeed have in most of the bailouts), but how little has been said about the bondholders.

Maybe the dirty secret is that this is about protecting the assets held by the Chinese, and thus their willingness to keep on lending...

As to bankers' remunerations, that has been discussed, but with no conclusive solution.

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

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Sun Sep 28th, 2008 at 06:18:41 AM EST
The cross border exposure on all this is amazing.  Even the Caja Laboral, Mondragon's in house bank in Spain, has $162 million in exposure through ownership in a Lehman subsidiary in the Netherlands.  And US failures are starting to pull down European banks.  Like Fortis.

And Barclay's bank has a 95 million share stake in AIG that's lost almost 90% of its value in not so many days.  That's a $2 billion loss, something like half of gross second quarter earnings.

The contagion is spreading.  It looks like the Anglo disease may be a global epidemic at this point.....    

And I'll give my consent to any government that does not deny a man a living wage-Billy Bragg

by ManfromMiddletown (manfrommiddletown at lycos dot com) on Sun Sep 28th, 2008 at 04:37:04 PM EST
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Paulson, it should be noted, is very very close to the leadership in Beijing, from his GS days (Goldman Sachs did quite well in China the past decade).

There are dots here to connect but, of course, few journalists qualified to connect them.

Fai de bèn a Bertrand, te lou rendra en cagant

by redstar on Mon Sep 29th, 2008 at 03:56:33 AM EST
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