The Obama administration wants Europe to puts its banks through more rigorous public stress tests, an issue Geithner will likely raise later this week at a meeting of G-8 finance ministers.
More rigorous stress tests? You mean like the ones the US banks went thru? You know the ones where the banks essentially made up their own rules? Then had the privilege of "leaking" their own phony test results to help drive up the stock market so they could then do massive offerings? Those tests Timmy?
I don't know Tim my friend. There are those of us who are watching this all TARP repayment nonsense and wondering: "Where did the banks "really" get all that money to pay back their TARP funds from"?
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You mean like the ones the US banks went thru?
You know the ones where the banks essentially made up their own rules? Then had the privilege of "leaking" their own phony test results to help drive up the stock market so they could then do massive offerings?
Those tests Timmy?
I don't know Tim my friend.
There are those of us who are watching this all TARP repayment nonsense and wondering: "Where did the banks "really" get all that money to pay back their TARP funds from"?
Just thinking out loud.
On Jun 09 07:46 AM Archman Investor wrote:
> Just thinking out loud.