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Originally posted by doodab View PostLet them all go bust and use the money that would have been injected as fresh capital to start a new bank staffed only with certified 100% fairtrade eco bankers who will invest in fluffy bunny breeding programs.
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Originally posted by TimCaprica View PostBut if the bank fails it probably doesn't have that many strong assets and the assets that are there will see a sudden short term drop in value that will hit the balance sheets of all banks.
Allowing a few banks to fail like Northern Rock, Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns etc?
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Originally posted by Paddy View PostIf the bank is left to fold, then the assets can be bought from the receivers or the bank can be nationalised.
Until one or two banks are allowed to fail, the banks are going to carry on gambling taxpayers money and giving themselves huge bonuses. It’s a bit like giving a drug addict money without getting them treated. Let the banks go cold turkey.
Allowing a few banks to fail like Northern Rock, Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns etc?
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Originally posted by TimCaprica View PostIt would be nice if they could go under without bringing everyone else down but if that was left to happen it would just start an awful chain of events resulting in a total halt to all lending as in 2008.
I'm probably stating the obvious but the problem is that all the banks have made stupid investments (including to each other) so if one goes all the others look vulnerable both through exposure to failed bank and exposure to the same stupid investments. Then nobody wants to lend to any bank, which is effectively a wholesale banking bank run, and then the world ends.
My unlikely prediction is that it all ends up on the balance sheets of central banks and then disappears through printing loads of money resulting in lots more inflation and slow growth in the medium term. Then we can all get our tulip together and have fun causing a new crisis.
Until one or two banks are allowed to fail, the banks are going to carry on gambling taxpayers money and giving themselves huge bonuses. It’s a bit like giving a drug addict money without getting them treated. Let the banks go cold turkey.
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Originally posted by Paddy View PostStange who EU laws are ignored when it suits them.
If banks make such stupid investments then they should be left to go under.
I'm probably stating the obvious but the problem is that all the banks have made stupid investments (including to each other) so if one goes all the others look vulnerable both through exposure to failed bank and exposure to the same stupid investments. Then nobody wants to lend to any bank, which is effectively a wholesale banking bank run, and then the world ends.
My unlikely prediction is that it all ends up on the balance sheets of central banks and then disappears through printing loads of money resulting in lots more inflation and slow growth in the medium term. Then we can all get our tulip together and have fun causing a new crisis.
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Funny enough, read a peice on this at the weekend, and the crux of it, is that anything wrapped up at AAA, is least risk as far as an investment goes, but not no risk. I can't see anyone to have done anything illegal here. Morally speaking, well, I don't think we'd ever have thought any investment bankers actually had morals.
There will be no crash, except in what is going to happen to our pension funds, and savings....
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So, it's true, some people/companies are above the law by either having friends in the right places, or the wealth to concoct a defence no prosecution could ever win against.
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Originally posted by Churchill View PostI think you're confusing the words "illegal" and "immoral".
That scam/scheme will have gone through probably the most expensive legal team on the planet and the guy who dreamt up that scam/scheme will have made an absolute fortune!
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Originally posted by PAH View PostWill these be the subprime mortgages that were fraudulently packaged as low risk and sold to other companies?
Thus transferring billions (if not trillions) of fraudulent debt to banks and companies in other countries for their governments to bail out.
Has anyone even been arrested, let alone charged, for such a massive fraud?
Or is this the scam we're not supposed to talk about?
That scam/scheme will have gone through probably the most expensive legal team on the planet and the guy who dreamt up that scam/scheme will have made an absolute fortune!
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Euro zone leaders must take "decisive steps"- Cameron
print money like the buggery as any prudent steward of the economy would do
Euro zone leaders must take decisive steps- Cameron | Reuters
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Originally posted by Paddy View PostDexia has 7 billion euros of securities linked to U.S. mortgages
If banks make such stupid investments then they should be left to go under.
Will these be the subprime mortgages that were fraudulently packaged as low risk and sold to other companies?
Thus transferring billions (if not trillions) of fraudulent debt to banks and companies in other countries for their governments to bail out.
Has anyone even been arrested, let alone charged, for such a massive fraud?
Or is this the scam we're not supposed to talk about?
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostSo the French government will borrow money to take on Dexia's debts, thus taking their debt/GDP ratio even higher.
So the banking elite who control the World, will use the French govt puppets to borrow money to take on Dexia's debts, thus taking their debt/GDP ratio even higher.
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