Comments on: TPG to Invest $5 Billion in Wamu http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/04/tpg-to-invest-5-billion-in-wamu.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:11:10 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Steve http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/04/tpg-to-invest-5-billion-in-wamu.html#comment-6517 Steve Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:12:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/04/tpg-to-invest-5-billion-in-wamu/#comment-6517 Gee, could the leak to the WSJ, followed by silence, be a pressure tactic to get a bit o' government cheese? ``We can't make the numbers work, Ben/Sheila/Hank...and the markets are opening in just a few hours.'' Gee, could the leak to the WSJ, followed by silence, be a pressure tactic to get a bit o’ government cheese? “We can’t make the numbers work, Ben/Sheila/Hank…and the markets are opening in just a few hours.”

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/04/tpg-to-invest-5-billion-in-wamu.html#comment-6496 Anonymous Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:28:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/04/tpg-to-invest-5-billion-in-wamu/#comment-6496 Interesting area of DD, i.e, the future power of teenage discretionary income:<br/><br/>Bank loans as a percentage of GDP, a common measure of the penetration of financial services in a country, are still in the mid-teens, compared with an average of 25% for the BRIC nations of Brazil, Russia, India, and China, according to the Association of Mexican Banks. Interesting area of DD, i.e, the future power of teenage discretionary income:

Bank loans as a percentage of GDP, a common measure of the penetration of financial services in a country, are still in the mid-teens, compared with an average of 25% for the BRIC nations of Brazil, Russia, India, and China, according to the Association of Mexican Banks.

]]> By: Richard Kline http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/04/tpg-to-invest-5-billion-in-wamu.html#comment-6484 Richard Kline Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:14:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/04/tpg-to-invest-5-billion-in-wamu/#comment-6484 WaMu: I live in Seattle, in Belltown; I look south out one window on the bright shiny HQ of WaMu. Here, they've gown like the Blob with the Subcrime Bubble, from a major player to an Emerald Carbuncle. TPG . . . yah know what happens when you shake hands with the Blob? In case you've forgotten: you don't eat it, It eats you. Buy their assets? Sure. Buy their equity? Sheol, baby. Cut that hand off now---and run!<br/><br/>The sucker's rally in equities raked into a steaming pile by repeated rate cuts has just about finished its trail, soon comes the Arc of the Diver. In the month of May, me thinks; there's historical precedent. But soon. WaMu: I live in Seattle, in Belltown; I look south out one window on the bright shiny HQ of WaMu. Here, they’ve gown like the Blob with the Subcrime Bubble, from a major player to an Emerald Carbuncle. TPG . . . yah know what happens when you shake hands with the Blob? In case you’ve forgotten: you don’t eat it, It eats you. Buy their assets? Sure. Buy their equity? Sheol, baby. Cut that hand off now—and run!

The sucker’s rally in equities raked into a steaming pile by repeated rate cuts has just about finished its trail, soon comes the Arc of the Diver. In the month of May, me thinks; there’s historical precedent. But soon.

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