Roubini: Nationalizing Banks Is the Best Way to Go: Tech Ticker, Yahoo! Finance

Roubini : Nationalizing Banks Is the Best Way to Go: Tech Ticker, Yahoo! Finance:

"...paradoxically nationalization may be a more market friendly solution of a banking crisis: it creates the biggest hit for common and preferred shareholders of clearly insolvent institutions and...it provides a fair upside to the tax-payer. It can also resolve the problem of avoiding having the government manage the bad assets: if you selling back all of the assets and deposits of the bank to new private shareholders after a clean-up of the bank together with a partial government guarantee of the bad assets (as it was done in the resolution of the Indy Mac bank failure) you avoid having the government managing the bad assets.

Good point later as well:

"...also resolves the too-big-too-fail problem of banks that are systemically important and that thus need to be rescued by the government at a high cost to the taxpayer. This too-big-to-fail problem has now become an even-bigger-to-fail problem as the current approach has lead weak banks to take over even weaker banks."

This is largely consistent with what we discussed a few weeks ago in class.