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I hate to say it, but I told you so about Washington Mutual

Started by morganb · 9 months ago

So the biggest bank failure in the history of our country occurred yesterday and quite frankly was somewhat of a non-event. The quick FDIC step-in and subsequent fire sale to JP Morgan kept bank failure on page two with the $700 billion federal bailout clearly the bigger headline. This is something that hopefully [...] ... Continue reading »

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  • The final chapter hasn't been written on WaMu yet.

    Billions in liabilities have been stashed somewhere. I'm not sure this was done "legally". Debt and shareholders may have valid complaints.

    The JP Morgan value case depends on some massive, omnibus bailout plan passing, a-la Paulson. If it doesn't, there will be big fireworks.
  • The only people getting wiped out at WAMU are the shareholders. OK, not completely, they do get a buck and a half or so. The FDIC dodged a bullet on this one. However, there are no more American mega banks like Morgan/Chase to step in and take over.

    If the Citigroup-Wachovia merger doesn't go through then we can expect Wacovia to become a division of a Chinese or Dubai bank.

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