Me, myself and I: > I do not know who were the creditors of these banks that allowed them > to built such huge leverages mentioned above when they were playing > that regulatory arbitrage game, but I suspect that they lent that > money to one another.
Another interesting thing: these SIVs of the banks, that is, their Special Investment Vehicles. Their SIVs are holding the bad loans. The banks are holding much of the AAA rated tranches of the bad loans securitized by their SIVs. If the banks are forced to merge with their SIVs, then they will become the holders of the bad-loans, in which case they may agree to restructuring them. If I were to run this TARP thing at the US Government, I would go and buy the long-term debt of the banks from their holders in the debt market at fire-sale prices and write them down to zero, rather than buying the toxic assets of the banks. The first step in this is to force the banks to consolidate the their balance sheets with those of their SIVs, of course. That way, it would be easy for me to force the banks to restructure the bad debt they are holding. That would be much cheaper to the US citizens than how much they are paying now. But, who at the US Government would do something like that? Best, Sabri _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
