Comment Re:foreign banks? (Score 1) 173
Chapter 20 details how CEOs of the "big 9" we summoned to an unexplained a meeting by Henry Paulson and told by Treasury that they would all be participating in TARP, and how much each would receive: "Bank of America: $25 billion; Citigroup: $25 billion; Goldman Sachs: $10 billion; JP Morgan: $25 billion; Morgan Stanley: $10 billion; State Street: $10 billion, Wells Fargo: $25 billion." (the book omits who the last two banks were and how much they were to receive) When Wells Fargo CEO Dick Kovacevich objected, Henry Paulson to him "Your regulator is sitting right there" "And you are going to get a call tomorrow morning telling you you're undercapitalized and that you won't be able to raise money in the private markets".
Other points of interest in the book- The picture of the $9 billion check Mitsubishi used to invest in Morgan Stanley
Personally, I enjoyed Michael Lewis' "The Big Short" much more.