Cash is King

by REIT Wrecks on September 14, 2008

Confirming today that the subprime crisis is “largely contained”, Lehman Brothers Holding Inc., declared bankruptcy, and Merrill Lynch confirmed it doesn’t need to raise more capital (“these problems are behind us”), it just needs to sell out to a commercial bank in Charlotte. And the Fed has now added equities to the list of assets how about a Lehman pay stub? it will take at the discount “window”. See also “Fed Extends Emergency Measures”.

The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac was done at least in part to avoid a massive meltdown in the market for credit default swaps. But one week later, heeeeeeeeeere’s Johnny! here we are:

The way it’s supposed to work, assuming everybody is not freaking out all at once:

Hang on to your hats, it’s going to be a wild ride.

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