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Endless intervention? Giving banks money was distasteful but necessary; telling them how to spend it is tempting but wrong.(WALL STREET CRISIS)

National Review

| November 17, 2008 | Stuttaford, Andrew | COPYRIGHT 2008 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

IT'S a measure of the predicament in which we find ourselves that merely keeping the banking system going now seems like something of a triumph. It's even more of a measure that, despite the spending of once-unimaginable amounts of money (or the agreement to spend them), the outcome is still uncertain. Nevertheless, there have been a few tentative signs that the system may be on the mend. LIBOR (the London Interbank Offered Rate, a key indicator of the interest rates at which banks lend to each other) has been edging down. The TED spread (the difference between three-month LIBOR and the yield on notionally risk-free three-month Treasury bills--a good basis for weighing ...

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