Neel Kashkari: 'Our nation will emerge stronger'

Neel Kashkari, former interim head of the US Treasury's Office of Financial Stability, discusses his views on the causes of the crisis, the reasons for the $700 billion bailout program, and where the economy is headed

Knowledge@Wharton, 17 June, 2009 | 12:22PM
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So again, I'm not disagreeing with you. It is another source of leverage. But again, it's about trying to find a graceful approach to this new equilibrium. Did I answer your question?

Questioner: Yes. But when the program unwinds -- you're saying the hope is, at the end, it reaches that equilibrium. And that the government itself doesn't want that equilibrium reached too quickly, which could be damaging. What's the problem about it, though? I mean, that's what I don't understand, in the market. What's the problem with having that big drop, and then having private investors come in at that point and meet it? Private investors have a lot of cash, and they are using the TALF as well as other programs, as well as just private equity funds and their own investments, to buy cheap assets. When it gets too cheap, they're coming in, and they'll buy it. And then that's a fair price.

This article was published on Morningstar.com on June 10, 2009. Republished with permission from Knowledge@Wharton , the online research and business analysis journal of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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