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No one knows the true market price of the dodgy assets

No one knows the true market price of the dodgy assets—as no one wants to buy them, as no one knows their true value—so the government is having to invent a price.

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No one knows the true market price of the dodgy assets
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Goverment must invent a "discovery" process and hope for best
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If government price is too high, tax payer is ripped off
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If the government price is too low, the banks will be ruined
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Scale of uncertainty made some form of action necessary
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