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Private Equity the Problem...or the Solution? Regulators Quietly Change Tune

September 4, 2009

Analysis of:Regulators shut banks in Calif, Md, Minn in US? | news.yahoo.com

The FDIC decision to change the capitalization ratio for private investors in troubled banks from 15% to 10% is an important admission. Private investors were sometimes castigated as a problem in the past, given their short-term desires for profits. However, as the FDIC implicitly acknowledged, they are actually the key element of any real solution to the problem of troubled banks and other financial institutions.

"Bailout" Response Increases Risk as it Attempts to Reduce it

September 29, 2008

Analysis of:An Admirable Response to the Crisis | maxkapital.wordpress.com

1. The most important financial principles--and the one that led the US to world leadership--are compromised by the "bailout" proposal. 2. An unintended consequence of the dire talk used ot sell the proposal is increasing the very risks we ostensible want to reduce. 3. The Fed and Treasury have a role--and this is not it.

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