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Can't please everyone

27 May 2009 By Richard Beales

The issue isn t just banks using government leverage to buy their own bad assets through the PPIP. The potential for conflicts extends to buying each others dross. But the scheme won t work if Treasury and FDIC set overly complicated rules. They need to settle for imperfection.

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