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No one knows the true market price of the dodgy assets
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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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The Global Financial Crisis »
The Global Financial Crisis
The Global Financial Crisis☜Exploring the causes, consequences and responses to the global financial crisis. ☜F1CEB7
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How should the US and other governments respond? »
How should the US and other governments respond?
How should the US and other governments respond?☜Exploring policy options open to the US government and the other governments in response to the global financial crisis.☜FFB597
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Measures to alleviate the immediate symptoms? »
Measures to alleviate the immediate symptoms?
Measures to alleviate the immediate symptoms?☜What measures are available to alleviate the immediate symptoms of the financial crisis?☜FFB597
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The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act 2008 »
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act 2008
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act 2008☜A law authorizing the US Secretary of the Treasury to spend up to US$700 billion to purchase distressed assets, especially mortgage-backed securities, from the nations banks—enacated on 3rd October 2008.☜59C6EF
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Insufficient information available to make sound policy decision »
Insufficient information available to make sound policy decision
Insufficient information available to make sound policy decision☜Neither lawmakers nor ordinary citizens had enough information to properly assess the real risks, the need for action and what an appropriate course of action might be.☜EF597B
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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☜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.☜98CE71
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Goverment must invent a "discovery" process and hope for best »
Goverment must invent a "discovery" process and hope for best
Goverment must invent a "discovery" process and hope for best☜The Goverment is taking on the burden of inventing a plausible discovery process / mechanism and hoping for best under conditions of conisderable uncertainty.☜98CE71
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If government price is too high, tax payer is ripped off »
If government price is too high, tax payer is ripped off
If government price is too high, tax payer is ripped off☜If government sets the price is too high, the tax payer is ripped off.☜98CE71
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If the government price is too low, the banks will be ruined »
If the government price is too low, the banks will be ruined
If the government price is too low, the banks will be ruined☜If the government price is too low, the banks will be ruined as the government will have given them too little money to save them.☜98CE71
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