■墜落した飛行機にはBOAの社員が、23人も乗っていた。 飛行機の目的地のシャーロッテは、BOAの本拠地。NYには投資部門があり、この便はいわばBOAのシャトル便だった。 そして、1/1にメリルリンチを正式買収したBOAは、政府からの多額の援助に依存していた。 ◆http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Charlotte-final-destination-apf-14078612.html Bank of America spokeswoman Nicole Nastacie said 23 employees of the nation's largest bank were aboard,
Bank of America is based in Charlotte, but its corporate investment bank is in New York, where the company also has a large retail and consumer banking business. Bank of America also acquired New York-based Merrill Lynch & Co. on Jan. 1 and work continues on the acquisition, which could depend on a fresh multibillion-dollar aid package from the federal government.
>>18 ◆The Real AIG Scandal http://www.slate.com/id/2213942/ By Eliot Spitzer あの元NY知事スピッツアーの投稿、 March 17, 2009, at 10:41 AM ET It's not the bonuses. It's that AIG's counterparties are getting paid back in full. 問題はボーナスではない!! 問題はAIGのCDSカウンターパーティー(銀行)がフルで救済金で払い戻しを受けていることだ、 Everybody is rushing to condemn AIG's bonuses, but this simple scandal is obscuring the real disgrace at the insurance giant :Why are AIG's counterparties getting paid back in full, to the tune of tens of billions of taxpayer dollars?
Forthe answer to this question, we need to go back to the very firstdecision to bail out AIG, made, we are told, by then-Treasury SecretaryHenry Paulson, then-New York Fed officialTimothy Geithner, Goldman Sachs CEOLloyd Blankfein, and Fed ChairmanBen Bernankelast fall. AIG救済を決めた昨秋、その会議の顔ぶれは、Hポールソン、ガイトナー、GSのCEOロイド、そしてバーナンキ、
>>19 Post-Lehman'scollapse, they feared a systemic failure could be triggered by AIG'sinability to pay the counterparties to all the sophisticatedinstruments AIG had sold. And who were AIG's trading partners? No shockhere:Goldman, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, UBS, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Barclays,and on it goes. リーマンの惨状から、AIGを通して銀行を救済する仕組みを考える、(銀行はおなじみのところーー、) So now we know for sure what we already surmised:The AIG bailout has been a way to hide an enormous second round of cash to the same group that had received TARP money already. 要はAIG救済とは、TARPのセカンドバージョンに過ぎなかった、
It all appears, once again, to bethe same insiders protecting themselves against sharing the pain and risk of their own bad adventure...