He found that it was only yesterday that this bailout plan used the price discovery logic, and he asks what that means:
One possible explanation. It wasn’t until yesterday that they realized that it would actually be necessary to explain themselves.
But there’s another possible explanation, which I find terrifyingly plausible: the plan came first, and all this stuff about price discovery is an after-the-fact rationalization, invented when people started asking questions.
It has seemed very strange to me that such a supposedly crucial economic program would be based on such an exotic argument. My sneaking suspicion is that they started with a determination to throw money at the financial industry, and everything else is just an excuse.
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