Europe To Bushco: Drop Dead-You're On Your Own

[kpete]

Europe To Paulson: You’re On Your Own
By: Cernig on Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008 at 6:45 AM - PDT

Remember how over the weekend Hank Paulson was on all the bobblehead shows saying that the bailout should extend to foreign firms trading in the US and how he was going to put together a Coalition Of The Bankrupt with other major nations for his bailout plans?

Europe’s not interested in buying toxic debt from sinking companies.

Ulrich Wilhelm, spokesman for Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, said there was no need for “a measure along the lines of what has been decided in the US”. Peer Steinbrück, the German finance minister, also made clear after a telephone conference with his contemporaries in the G7 group of leading nations that Berlin did not need to set up a rescue package.

…The French government also said it did not plan to set up a toxic asset fund or contribute to the US scheme. British officials said they had already instigated a special liquidity scheme, but like France and Germany they did not intend to pursue a toxic asset fund.

The European Commission made clear it was not planning any emergency measures.

much more at:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/09/23/europe-to-paulson-youre-on-your-own/#more-33055

[billyoc]

1. Toxic Asset Fund. Deregulation finally reaches its fullest flower.