When banks fail, who’s getting their hands on the distressed properties taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC)?

Here is one of the pieces of the distressed market puzzle ……
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The Opportunity: A partnership between Colony Capital LLC and a minority-owned investment firm won the bidding for a $1.85 billion portfolio […]

We have reported here before on the PPIP (Public Private Investment Program), back in April 2009 (just three short months ago).
Previously we discussed how the PPIP — yet another Obama administration and Treasury Department alphabet soup solution —  can not, and will not, work when you look at it through the lens of Game Theory.
Sure enough, […]

We all learn and process information differently. Some have found it difficult to understand the current financial crisis and what the government is doing to stimulate the economy.
So here is another way to visualize the capital allocated from/to financial companies during the current financial crisis.
Interestingly, the chart created by Keefe, Bruyette & Woods concludes that […]

The US Treasury on Monday, March 23, 2009 revealed details of a highly-anticipated plan to set up public-private investment funds that will buy up to $1 trillion in troubled loans and securities at the heart of the financial crisis.
The Treasury’s complex plan to use private funds to purchase toxic assets uses low-cost government financing, government guarantees […]