Should taxpayers own the good banks?
ING and the Dutch government pass taxpayers the bill
WHEN US TREASURY secretary Timothy Geithner brought his eagerly awaited financial sector stabilization plan to the Senate banking committee on February 10, ranking member Richard Shelby greeted him with a caustic reminder of how poorly thought out and ineffective the previous Tarp legislation, brought in by predecessor Hank Paulson, had been.
Giving Geithner’s proposals the big build-up, senator Shelby told him: "I hope they’re not more of the same. I hope you’re smarter than that."
Unfortunately for Shelby, it turned out to be Groundhog Day in Washington. Geithner’s sorry performance casts a shadow over the financial sector and presages a long winter for the global economy. A new Treasury secretary, in a new administration, had nothing much new to propose and, apparently, no clear idea at all of what...
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