Sunday, March 09, 2008

Deus ex machina

You know you're in trouble when you have to appeal to the Great Leader to do something. Karl Denninger publishes an open letter to the President, the Presidential candidates and others.
  1. He complains that 23A exemption letters and the recent TAF facility are being used to hide the scale of banking problems from the public.
  2. He points out that over the last 100 years, local house prices trend to 3 times median local income (work that out for your own house).
  3. He lists action points to make the system transparent and honest - even though some lenders will be immediately destroyed, like the little slips of flash-burn paper used by spies in Sixties movies.
Being right is not nearly enough - work it out for yourself:
  1. Imagine the conversation between interns on receipt of Denninger's fax;
  2. List the not-to-be-published reasons why nobody who could solve the problem, will;
  3. Compose the official reply.
Now, head for the tree line.

2 comments:

Nick Drew said...

what's really impressive is that he gives an action-plan: most of us can only point and whimper

my admiration for his analysis increases

Sackerson said...

Yes, he doesn't have to do this, he could just coldly make money out of the situation. I admire American idealism and public-spiritedness.