Friday, October 3, 2008

Five things

http://www.minyanville.com/articles/term-auction-facility-equity-credit-risk/index/a/19326/from/yahoo

With the main on being

It is that simple.

TAF, TSLF, SuperSIV, TARP, none of that matters. No matter what acronym is created to disguise the fact that assets are overpriced, or what government intervention is created to prop up those asset prices, the market will inevitably overpower it. This time is not different. In fact, it is continuing to play out almost exactly as the Great Depression did. The bottom line is that despite the bailout, risk in owning stocks has increased, not decreased