[Skip to the end] Two ‘bailouts’ today, the Fed asset purchase program and Citibank: Comments on the asset purchase program: Major theme- the answer to the housing and automobile issue is consumers with enough income to be able to afford their mortgage payments and car payments along with expanding employment prospects to ensure the ability […]
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UBS to sell stakes after $10 billion in subprime losses
Another example of a chunk of the losses being contained on Wall Street, and not leaking to Main Street this will now have zero effect on aggregate demand and there seems to be no business interruption. So as long as the losses stay spread out enough to not impair business operations and subdue aggregate demand […]