Latrade, the RTC and Securum were different. They only dealt with nationalised/bankrupt bank assets. Securum lost 60% of the money the Swedish government put into it.
I haven't seen anything on the German bad bank - anyone got any links?
Just wondering where did the idea of NAMA come from? Have other countries historically tried something similar and if so what was the outcome?
Please tell me we are not winging this and that there is evidence of success?????
Not really. NAMA is TARP as not used by the Bush administration. TARP was originally designed to do what NAMA is doing - buy assets at below book price, but above current market price. The Americans thought they had hit bottom about a year ago too...Lenihan stated on the radio that the Nama plan was within the guidlines laid out by the ECB which implies it is an ECB idea.
This backdrop makes it understandable that the Irish government felt it had to do something, anything to prop up the banking system. Still, there are alternatives short of nationalization.
Recapitalizations that make creditors and shareholders share in the pain, such as debt-for-equity swaps, should be an option. Ireland, like other countries, has to get over the notion that creditors are a sacred group who must be spared at all costs.
At the very least, the government shouldn’t ask taxpayers to wager so much on the hope that things will stop getting worse.
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