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dinsdag 23 september 2008

Bailout? Maar dan op zijn Zweeds

Zweden liet de belastingbetaler niet zonder meer opdraaien voor een eerdere bankcrisis.

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But unlike the United States, whose Treasury has made a proposal to deal with a similar situation, Sweden did not just bail out its financial institutions by having the government take over the bad debts. It also clawed its way back by pugnaciously extracting equity from bank shareholders before the state started writing checks.

That strategy kept banks on the hook while returning profits to taxpayers from the sale of distressed assets by granting warrants that turned the government into an owner.


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