Thread: $700 B Bailout
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Old 09-25-2008, 04:14 PM   #6
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Re: $700 B Bailout

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Originally Posted by 12thMan View Post
Well one of the issues they're having is actually pricing the bad loans. In other words determining how much they're worth or how worthless they are. So from an accounting standpoint it's tough to add that type of asset to your sheets.

Their are all types of challenges with this crap.
The cost of insuring the loans would almost certainly be less than 700 billion. If it costs 500b then we saved 200b. The caveat has to be that the gov't gets the properties that defaulted. Banks get thier money. The gov't gets the houses and sells them off.
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