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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: KyrosL who wrote (112107)5/28/2009 10:44:34 AM
From: slacker711  Read Replies (1) of 541735
 
Are Chrysler bondholders getting more or less than if Chrysler was left to the market without any government intervention?

His answer is that the bondholders are probably getting more. Do you disagree?

That has nothing to do with anything.

If a normal bankruptcy takes into account the timeline and circumstances to the lending then the government should get preferred treatment. However, this article expressly skips that argument (and I havent read anybody else make it either). Instead we get talk of the loans as charity and that should take precedence over the law. That simply shouldnt fly in a court of law.

Would anybody be making these nonsense arguments if private equity had stepped up in December? Would we be saying that Blackstone should get preferential treatment because they lent money when nobody else would?

My second point is that it is ridiculous to now call these loans charity. They were meant to be paid back with interest.

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