http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080711/ap_on_an/mortgage_crisis_analysis
There's a range of things the government can do short of a takeover. It could lend money to the two companies, it could buy their stock, it could make the implied government guarantee an explicit one with a big line of credit.
These are the kinds of things, presumably, Paulson and Bernanke will be exploring in the coming days in "working this issue very hard," as Bush said.
There's a range of things the government can do short of a takeover. It could lend money to the two companies, it could buy their stock, it could make the implied government guarantee an explicit one with a big line of credit.
These are the kinds of things, presumably, Paulson and Bernanke will be exploring in the coming days in "working this issue very hard," as Bush said.