[Pen-l] Re: financial melt-down [was: Reality catches up with catastrophists]

["Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

you're talking about "wholesale" money market funds, right? if retail
money market funds start failing, that's hitting directly at Main
Street.

by the way, here's a mystery: if the financial capitalists are so
politically strong, why is it that equity-holders (in Bear Stearns,
AIG, etc.) don't get bailed out?

On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Sabri Oncu <sabri.oncu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Julio:
>
>> Sabri wrote:
>
>>> What I hear is that the next shoe will be money market funds!
>
>> Hedge funds?  Tomorrow (when the new SEC short-selling rules go into effect)?
>
> It seems that money market funds are going down first. They call it
> "significant redemption pressure" although what they really mean is
> "run on banks/money market funds." Putnam in Boston closed its $15
> billion money market fund" last night but we just heard it an hour
> ago. What is going on in the hedge funds arena is not out in the open
> yet! The rumour is that they are buying protection thru credit default
> swaps on debt and then shorting the corresponding stock to force the
> issuer to default. If this is what really happening, then most likely
> they are digging their own grave. Also, it appears that there is "run
> on hedge funds" that is going on, too, but it is not out in the open
> yet, either. I guess, hedge funds will come after the money market
> funds. By the way, GMAC was also mentioned together with money market
> funds.
>
> Best,
> Sabri
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indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL.
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