You are hereBlogs / VoteAnderson's blog / Did Geithner rescue the financial system?
Did Geithner rescue the financial system?
A sound financial system shouldn't need to be "rescued." A sound financial system doesn't engender $1,080 per ounce gold. An unsound financial system needs to collapse in order to have real healing. I have laid out plans to deal with insolvent institutions. If a homeowner defaults, the bank forecloses. The problem we face is that banks aren't allowed to fail, i.e., default. How should we handle bank defaults? The bank's creditors - i.e., depositors - would become the receiver for a failed bank's assets. Thus it is the depositors who have first claim on a bank's assets. Instead, the FDIC, which is bankrupt, becomes the receiver and banks get bailed out, which diminishes the need to liquidate housing inventories.
- reply