But this is happening to firms that hold the toxic assets that have paralyzed our system.
How quickly can the administration get the public-private investment program for toxic assets up and running?
America's banks are propped up with public capital, but their balance-sheets are clogged with toxic assets.
Each day we were hearing about another large bank that was drowning in its toxic assets.
With the Paulson plan, the taxpayer ends up owning toxic assets of questionable value.
Kramer is concerned particularly about the commercial real estate toxic assets still out there.
To rekindle the credit market, the banks must get rid of those toxic assets.
Taxpayers borrowing a trillion dollars to buy those toxic assets is an even better idea.
Banks remain weighed down by the same toxic assets that sparked this whole mess.
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Since they won't buy the toxic assets without big protections he wants to give it to them.
You can't walk anywhere on Wall Street these days without stepping in some kind of toxic assets.
Marking assets to market with bond holders taking a hair cut would relieve toxic assets from balance sheets.
And, unless banks carry toxic assets at prices that attract buyers, reviving the banking system will be difficult.
ECB and ultimately the euro-zone taxpayer could be left holding a lot of toxic assets.
Given Merrill's continued exposure to subprime securities, leveraged loans and other toxic assets, he might not have a choice.
Of course they were able to do this when they slid the toxic assets off their plates, she says.
Even if the purchase of toxic assets goes ahead, might banks remain undercapitalised?
It is troubling that government is getting involved with those businesses which accepted money in exchange for toxic assets.
Paulson theorized this would relieve firms of the burden of carrying the toxic assets and inspire them to lend again.
Instead of just taking toxic assets off of banks' books, the U.S. government would directly inject capital into ailing firms.
Most disappointment was directed at the sketchy plan to tackle banks' toxic assets, such as mortgage-backed securities and leveraged loans.
Under that plan, banks would have paid over time for any assistance required to clear their books of toxic assets.
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Some banks will not lend because of "toxic assets" on their books, potentially bad debts which could eat up their capital.
The uncertainty surrounding the true value of mortgage securities, derivatives and other toxic assets is stoking panic in the financial markets.
America abandoned its original plan to buy toxic assets last October in favour of extra capital because the crisis demanded faster action.
He took an inordinate amount of time to come up with his complex plan to remove toxic assets from bank balance sheets.
They planned to discuss getting banks to lend again, what to do with toxic assets and regulatory reform, a Treasury spokesman said.
This week, after learning of the Treasury Department's plan to help banks unload so-called toxic assets, the market bounced back a bit.
Taxpayers buying a trillion dollars worth of toxic assets is good idea.
Lehman would "sell" temporarily toxic assets to banks in the Cayman Islands.
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