Geithner’s Bank Plan: Only a Partial Solution

You know those supersales at your local department store in which they offer great deals on a couple of things in the hopes of getting enough people in the door so they can move the crap too? That’s sort of what the Treasury Department and Tim Geithner are doing with the bank plan that was rolled out on Monday. The problem facing America’s economy has always been how to sell the worst of the toxic assets that are clogging banks’ balance sheets.

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