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• the Fannie/Freddie bailout,
• the shorts' handbook, and
• lack of foresight.

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Throw Out the Rulebook

Originally published on Monday, Sept. 15, at 9:06 a.m. EDT Nobody wants a panic. But we've got one.

Nobody from the Fed has gotten ahead of this problem. Nobody's in there with the list -- and the list is every firm with a big short position -- saying, "Guys, raise money or die, which is what happened to Lehman."

Having Lehman die is obviously bad for its customers and lenders, but it will be sorted out.

But how can the Fed and Treasury not have been in there telling AIG (AIG Quote) what to do? How can there not be a plan? How could we let free-market capitalism still run wild? It obviously failed.

How can the Fed not cut rates right now in this deflationary environment to make the deposits of banks worth more?

How can this guy Tim Geithner still be in charge, when everything he has done has been reactive and wrong? Do we just say, "Hey, them's the breaks"?

I put this one on the Federal Reserve. They had every chance to do more, and all they did as fret about Chinese-led inflation. Now the Chinese are so desperate they are doing a stimulus package, and all we have is a Fed that is worried about trying to be sure not that liquidity is available but that its various fancy facilities are in place, facilities that did nothing to help Lehman and did nothing to help Merrill (MER Quote) and are doing nothing to help AIG.