The Big Picture

So we're suppose to be updated on the latest effects of the credit crisis in international investment institutions for our lending decision final. yes ppl FINALS. I mean, its confusing reading all those crap in newspapers and journal. I mean seriously...are they even in English?!?

The latest news was on the US Feds bailing out Fannie, Freddie, Bear Stearns and AIG and leaving Lehman Brothers to die i.e. liquidate. (for non-finance students, go google them up. If ur too free ofcourse). I stumbled on this super simplified description as to why the feds help some institutions and not others.

• Lehman Brothers was like the little kid pulling the tail of a dog. You know the kid is going to get hurt eventually, and so no one is surprised when the dog turns around and bites the kid. But the kid only hurts himself, so no one really cares that much.

• Bear Stearns is the little pyro—the kid who was always playing with matches. He could harm not only himself, but burns his own house down, and indeed, he could have burnt down the entire neighborhood. The Fed stepped in not to protect him, but the rest of the block.

• AIG is the kid who accidentally stumbled into a bio-tech warfare lab...finds all these unlabeled vials, and heads out to the playground with a handful of them jammed into his pockets.

NOW I get it. Thanks Mr. Luke Mullins. lol