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LARRY KUDLOW: Geithner: The Fox Guarding the Henhouse? ?What is going on in this country? The gove?

By Glenn Reynolds

LARRY KUDLOW: Geithner: The Fox Guarding the Henhouse? “What is going on in this country? The government is about to take over GM in a plan that completely screws private bondholders and favors the unions. Get this: The GM bondholders own $27 billion and they?re getting 10 percent of the common stock in an expected exchange. And the UAW owns $10 billion of the bonds and they?re getting 40 percent of the stock. Huh? Did I miss something here? And Uncle Sam will have a controlling share of the stock with something close to 50 percent ownership. And no bankruptcy judge. So this is a political restructuring run by the White House, not a rule-of-law bankruptcy-court reorganization. . . . With Geithner running the Treasury and the potentially criminal enterprise called TARP, is his incestuous relationship with Wall Street bigwigs a perfect example of the fox guarding the henhouse? Was he too cozy to keep a critical eye on the very institutions that blew up later?” I think I’ll invest in China, where they respect private property . . . .

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on April 28, 2009 (boomark / email).