Re:Attempt to Reverse a $55 Million Ether Heist
by Retric on Sunday June 18, 2017 @11:52AM
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US has debt which costs more than 0.6% annualized so no even by the most optimistic analysis, it was a direct net loss.
It depends on how you calculate it but, actual costs where over 50 billion net loss. But, it was really important for politicians to point to it as a 'success' so there is more than a little creative accounting going on.
Re:Attempt to Reverse a $55 Million Ether Heist
by caoilte on Sunday June 18, 2017 @10:56AM
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The British make very convenient scapegoats and were responsible for a great deal of the Financial Crisis, but not the collapse of the Lehmans deal
http://www.reuters.com/article/barclays-lehman-idUSLDE62B258...
You can't trust anything in Too Big To Fail, unfortunately. Shame, it reads really well.
Re:Attempt to Reverse a $55 Million Ether Heist
by patrickg_zill on Sunday June 18, 2017 @12:15PM
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Lehman didn't assist with the LTCM bailout, like all the other big brokerages did. That's why they were chosen to be sacrificed to scare Congress.
Every official source that explains the 2008 crisis is full of lies. The big banks all engaged in massive fraud and the bailout was the cover up.
Almost the majority of Wall Street refused the bailout money. Paulson almost force them. The bailout money eventually made a profit ($15B). One could argue that the return rate was low (0.6% annualized), but still, this is far different from what most people have believed till this day: i.e., US gov just gave taxpayer's money away to the banks to cover their ass.
Paulson also almost managed to save Lehman Brothers until British Gov said no to Barclay's role in the plan. (Wall Street banks would acquire LB's "good assets" while Barclay would buy their toxic ones as its gateway to become a more influential player in US market.). But even Lehman didn't reach out to Pualson to get itself saved. It's the other way around: Paulson was trying many ways to save Lehman because he knew when Lehman went down, market would panic and then even those banks in good shape would be affected.