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That allayed any fears that the agency itself might go bankrupt. The bill allowed the Securities and Exchange Commission SEC to suspend the mark-to-market rule, which forced banks to keep their mortgages valued at present-day levels.

This meant that bad loans had to be valued at less than their probable true worth and could not have been resold in the panic-stricken climate of EESA included an extension of the Alternative Minimum Tax patch, tax credits for research and development, and relief for hurricane survivors. The Senate vote gave the bailout plan new life with these tax breaks and kept six other provisions added by the House:. They worried that the Fund would go bankrupt due to its investments in Lehman Brothers.

Money market accounts had been considered one of the safest investments. To stem the panic, the U. Treasury Department agreed to insure money market funds for a year.

The SEC banned short-selling financial stocks until October 2 to reduce volatility in the stock market. The U. This fear caused Libor rates to be much higher than the fed funds rate and sent stock prices plummeting.

Financial firms were unable to sell their debt, and without the ability to raise capital, these firms were in danger of going bankrupt, which is what happened to Lehman Brothers. Congress debated the pros and cons of such a massive intervention. Political leaders wanted to protect the taxpayer, but they also didn't want to let businesses off the hook for making bad decisions. But their refusal leaves the Department of Education in a bind.

The funds that Harvard and Yale refused have yet to be reallocated. On May 15, House Democrats passed a bill that would amend the formula, distributing funds by total headcount, rather than full time enrollment. The bill as a whole has virtually no chance of passing the Republican-led Senate, although the fate of that individual provision is unclear.

The California community college system is currently suing DeVos over this matter. In this case, the formula was determined by HHS, not Congress. Because the formula relied on net patient revenue, it meant that wealthier hospitals, where patients are more likely covered by private insurance, received more funds than community health centers and hospitals in poor regions, where patients are more likely to be on Medicaid.

A May 13 Kaiser Foundation study found that hospitals with the lowest share of revenue from private insurance received half as much per hospital bed as their counterparts with the highest share. Most hospitals nationwide stopped elective surgeries—a significant source of revenue—to handle COVID patients. Unlike PPP, the loans are not forgivable. While the program is not yet operational, the use of banks as intermediaries could potentially mean a repeat of the anger that surrounded PPP recipients.

This puts strain on banks but helps those borrowers in a tight spot. They merely bandage a bigger wound. Over-indebtedness undermines all efforts to solve the NPL problem — and policymakers are starting to acknowledge it. They need a bailout because our societies cannot afford to leave millions of citizens on the side of the road, and because they pose a stability risk for banks. Amending consumer protection legislation will not help the already over-indebted, but rather those who will borrow in the longer term.

Looking beyond traditional retail banking, latest research commissioned by Finance Watch in three EU Member States reveals a troubling trend. As the pandemic wears on, consumers increasingly seek small-value loans that borrowers rarely repay from finance companies charging usurious interest rates.

Stronger rules will work, but bailing out banks will not. There is little public support remaining for rescuing privately owned financial institutions from crisis effects. While governments and banks wade through the NPL mess, Europe finds itself at a crossroads. Against a backdrop of climate change, a global pandemic and economic uncertainty, some people, especially in essential sectors, put their lives and future health in peril.



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