The Current Crisis, The Government Bail Out, and the New York City Housing Market |
Sep. 19, 2008
Let us take a step back: The proposed government bail out will involve at least half a trillion dollars of the public's money; the AIG bailout was $85 billion; Bear Stearns, around $20 billion; the Fed has pumped in well over half a trillion into the credit markets by this point; interest rates for treasury bonds are significantly lower than rates for bank-to-bank loans.
