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07/05/09
How the bailout bashed the banks
Filed under: General, Business, Real Estate, Mortgages
Posted by: Lillian Wong @ 6:43 pm

Washington’s most dramatic foray into the nation’s financial sector since the Great Depression began on Oct. 13 with a misnamed acronym, an unwitting tribe of CEOs, and a confused staff of Treasury officials. It was a foreshadowing of the misadventure to come. “I don’t even know who the 9 companies are. Do you?” Michele Davis, assistant secretary for public affairs, wrote in an e-mail sent at 7:15 a.m. on that history-making Monday. “No clue,” Treasury chief of staff Jim Wilkinson responded. “Let me get the list.”  more…



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