... Mathieu‐Louis Aoun, Financial Research Analyst, Weiss Research, Inc Amber Dakar, Personal Finance Analyst, Weiss Research, Inc 2 Dangerous Unintended Consequences: How Banking Bailouts, Buyouts and Nationalization Can Only Prolong America’s Second Great Depression ... in September and, with the merger, even further, to 2.98 percent by year‐end. Dangerous UnintendedConsequences Each of these government‐inspired mergers may have helped quell the immediate crisis, while relieving ... regulators of the immediate burden of a takeover. However, they also came with dangerous unintended consequences, as follows: 1. Concentration of risk. Most toxic assets that would be liquidated in a bankruptcy or regulatory takeover ...
... the influence of ultra easy monetary policies. As well, such polices can have other unintendedconsequences which might also tend to grow over time. C Could Ultra Easy Money Have Unintended Consequences? The unexpected beginning of the financial and economic crisis50, and its unexpected resistance ... the desire to borrow increases.107 And, finally and likely most important, still lower policy rates threaten still more of the unintendedconsequences which brought us the current crisis in the first place. 3) Other unintendedconsequences in the financial sector Given the unprecedented character of the monetary policies followed in recent years, ... of the desirable short run effects and the undesirable longer run effects – the unintended consequences. In Section B, it is suggested that there are grounds to believe that monetary stimulus operating through traditional (“flow”) channels might now be ...
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