Comments on: Good and Not-As-Good News on the Money Market Front http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/good-and-not-as-good-news-on-money.html Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:08:53 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/good-and-not-as-good-news-on-money.html#comment-22570 Anonymous Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:37:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/good-and-not-as-good-news-on-the-money-market-front/#comment-22570 So the good people of the US have provided the banksters with capital for lending and they have decided to backstop their shitpiles and sit on the money. <br/><br/>That should not be a part of the game plan. They should be sitting on their own capital and using the taxpayer funds to resume lending. If they don't lend the money, it should be withdrawn. So the good people of the US have provided the banksters with capital for lending and they have decided to backstop their shitpiles and sit on the money.

That should not be a part of the game plan. They should be sitting on their own capital and using the taxpayer funds to resume lending. If they don’t lend the money, it should be withdrawn.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/good-and-not-as-good-news-on-money.html#comment-22552 Anonymous Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:42:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/good-and-not-as-good-news-on-the-money-market-front/#comment-22552 So a major financial crisis was possibly averted, at the cost of near-bankrupcy at the state level! I think it's high time the investment bankers receive their due reward and have their salary raised by another few millions. It's the least they could do. So a major financial crisis was possibly averted, at the cost of near-bankrupcy at the state level! I think it’s high time the investment bankers receive their due reward and have their salary raised by another few millions. It’s the least they could do.

]]> By: doc holiday http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/good-and-not-as-good-news-on-money.html#comment-22545 doc holiday Tue, 21 Oct 2008 17:43:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/good-and-not-as-good-news-on-the-money-market-front/#comment-22545 Slight OT:<br/><br/>When the Treasury Department's bailout czar provided an update this week on the government's $700 billion plan to rescue troubled financial institutions, he vowed that it would be an "open and transparent program with appropriate oversight.''<br/> <br/>The next day, the Treasury Department put out an announcement about a major bailout-related contract with Bank of New York Mellon Corp. that fell short in the transparency department.<br/><br/>http://bailoutsleuth.com/2008/10/the-end-of-bailout-transparency-already/ Slight OT:

When the Treasury Department’s bailout czar provided an update this week on the government’s $700 billion plan to rescue troubled financial institutions, he vowed that it would be an “open and transparent program with appropriate oversight.”

The next day, the Treasury Department put out an announcement about a major bailout-related contract with Bank of New York Mellon Corp. that fell short in the transparency department.

http://bailoutsleuth.com/2008/10/the-end-of-bailout-transparency-already/

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/good-and-not-as-good-news-on-money.html#comment-22534 Anonymous Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:03:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/good-and-not-as-good-news-on-the-money-market-front/#comment-22534 Yves did you see this yet?<br/><br/>http://v2.ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/<br/><br/>http://www.aleablog.com/the-fed-latest-scam-mmiff/ Yves did you see this yet?

http://v2.ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/

http://www.aleablog.com/the-fed-latest-scam-mmiff/

]]> By: drfinn http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/good-and-not-as-good-news-on-money.html#comment-22527 drfinn Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:06:00 +0000 http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2008/10/good-and-not-as-good-news-on-the-money-market-front/#comment-22527 I didn't take it as John saying the numbers were pretty but rather the way in which it was displayed is pretty and easy to read.<br/><br/>He said in an earlier post he didn't have the "nice table" yet, so when he call that table pretty I took it as a continued reference to the format.<br/><br/>I could be wrong. I didn’t take it as John saying the numbers were pretty but rather the way in which it was displayed is pretty and easy to read.

He said in an earlier post he didn’t have the “nice table” yet, so when he call that table pretty I took it as a continued reference to the format.

I could be wrong.

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