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Krugman: For non-recourse before he was against it

By Anonymous

Back when Geithner originally outlined the administration's bank rescue plan, Krugman wrote:

What is in it, in reverse order:

1. Super-TALF: a big expansion of the Fed?s quantitative easing, with Treasury backing. I?m OK with that.

What's the TALF? A Fed program that provides -- wait for it -- non-recourse loans to private investors to buy certain ABS.

Now, however, Krugman thinks providing non-recourse loans to private investors to buy certain toxic assets is an unconscionable subsidy, and prima facie evidence of regulatory capture.

Sigh. I remember when Krugman stuck to subjects he at least vaguely understood.

Full post as published by Economics of Contempt on March 23, 2009 (boomark / email).