I am referring to the debate in the video.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/29163525
Geithner's Bank Plan Led Goldman to Call Meeting
BOFA, BANK, JETS, CORPORATE, APARTMENT, LEWIS
Posted By: Charlie Gasparino | On-Air Editor
CNBC.com
| 12 Feb 2009 | 04:17 PM ET
How worried was Wall Street about a lack of clarity in Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s plan to save the banking system by buying toxic debt? So worried that Goldman Sachs called a meeting to figure out how to fix the problem.
—This meeting known as the “Goldman Sachs roundtable” took place just hours after Geithner’s speech (and the dismal market reaction) on Tuesday at the headquarters of Goldman Sachs in lower Manhattan.
—Around 20 of the firm’s biggest hedge fund and private equity clients from around the country showed up—a testament to just how concerned financial industry insiders are about what few details Geithner presented.
—They included representatives of KKR, Fortress Investment Group , Bain Capital, Perry Capital, Capital Research, Putnam and Citadel.
Goldman sachs says the meeting was planned well in advance. But people who attended tell CNBC that they received the invitation after the speech and decided to attend because of the speech. Goldman Sachs initially denied that the meeting, hosted by co-presidents John Winkelried and Gary Cohn, took place.
Here are some of the upshots from that meeting:
1. While it is better to wait for a good plan as opposed to quick-and-dirty bad one, time is important. What the group concluded was that the longer the plan takes to produce, the more difficult the situation becomes. That's because reviving the securitization market is key toward reviving the economy and it’s a vicious cycle: The longer it takes to revive securitization, the worse the economy becomes and the securitized products held by the banks lose more value.
2. Ken Griffen, the founder of Citadel, stressed the need not merely to fix the prices of the securitized bonds, but also that any plan must stabilize the root cause of the problem—the mortgages themselves. And he came up with several ideas to spur homeownership that could revive the housing market.
3. Also some worry over speculation that Obama economic adviser Paul Volker doesn’t have a more formal role in the process of coming up with a bailout plan.
4. Some actually had met with officials at the New York Federal Reserve after Geithner's speech and were told the plan is still weeks away. That wasn’t received well.
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URL: http://www.cnbc.com/id/29163525/
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