Tuesday, Feb 10, 2009

That should do it! Then again....bring on the quadrillion!

BBC News: US unveils new $1.5 trillion plan

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has unveiled a comprehensive $1.5 trillion (£1.02 trillion) bank bail-out plan to beat the financial crisis.
Under the plan, the size of a key Federal Reserve lending program will be expanded to $1 trillion from $200bn.

Posted by flintster1994 @ 05:18 PM (553 views) Add Comment

7 Comments

1. Ulfarus said...

So what is the size of the plan to be unveiled by Crash Gordon ?

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 05:36PM Report Comment
 

2. timmy t said...

ONE AND A HALF MILLION MILLION DOLLARS...They are just plucking numbers from the air and hoping its enough. Bet you a quid it isn't.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 06:06PM Report Comment
 

3. timmy t said...

And the Dow is down 300 points so looks like they don't think its enough either.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 06:08PM Report Comment
 

4. plato said...

Dow looks very impressed! 7,966.45 -304.42 / -3.68%

Feb 10 1:09pm ET †

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 06:13PM Report Comment
 

5. Stevie Dee said...

So thats £900 billion to Barclays and the wealthy investors or sovereign wealth funds.. and the change for the public for their "soup kitchens" & "chain gangs" building roads, schools... The United States of Incarceration... Or put another way.. Asset Stripping on grand scale..

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 06:44PM Report Comment
 

6. debtfree said...

To think its enough to pay off every single mortgage in the USA !

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 07:09PM Report Comment
 

7. jack c said...

Ultimately whats going to happen is that they will be forced to walk away from all the toxic debt - heavy read but worthwhile www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 07:17PM Report Comment
 

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