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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Is nationalization inevitable?

The forecast total bank loss is around $3.1 trillion (some forecast $4 trillion). By far banks have written down $1.1 trillion, still $2 trillion to go. The question is: for the sickest banks, should they be let fail, or be nationalized or become "zoombie banks", as happened in Japan?