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U.S. woos investors to buy toxic assets
06:46 PM EDT

By David Lawder and Glenn Somerville
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Monday offered a
raft of incentives for private investors to help rid banks of up to $1
trillion in toxic assets that plunged the world economy into crisis.
U.S. stock prices shot up, led by bank shares, as Washington ended
weeks of speculation about details of its attack on the heart of the
credit crisis, offering generous government financing to underpin the
public-private plan.
The U.S. Treasury said it will launch the program with $75 billion to
$100 billion from existing financial rescue funds aimed at thawing the
market for mortgage-backed securities and other hard-to-sell assets.
President Barack Obama said the plan was critical to a U.S. economic
recovery, but added, "We still have a long way to go and we have a lot
of work to do."
Major U.S. share indexes, which recently scraped 12-year lows, jumped
about 7.0 percent on optimism over the plan. The Dow Jones industrial
average closed up nearly 500 points.
Public fury over big bonus paid to executives at bailout recipient
American International Group has made some investors wary of
partnering with the government. But some of the world's most powerful
investors said the plan could work and indicated interest in
participating.
In an effort to spur participation, Treasury Secretary Timothy
Geithner said private investors will not face executive pay
restrictions.
Analysts cautioned that success would depend on whether banks are
prepared to sell assets cheaply or want to wait in the hope of getting
a better price when the economy recovers.
CRITICS SEE INVESTORS FAVORED OVER TAXPAYERS
Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul
Krugman slammed Geithner's plan.
In his Monday column, Krugman said it was a rehash of a
"cash-for-trash" proposal the Bush administration floated last fall,
and that the incentives meant investors could profit if asset values
increase but "walk away" if they fall.
Some Republican lawmakers also expressed concern over the incentives
offered by the government, which could end up providing more than 90
percent of the funds to buy the assets.
"The plan seems to offer little incentive for private investors to
participate unless the subsidy is made so rich that it comes at the
expense of the taxpayer," said Representative Eric Cantor of Virginia,
a member of the House of Representatives Republican leadership.
Geithner, who sent markets plunging on February 10 by releasing only a
bare-bones sketch of the plan, said it was needed to get the private
sector involved in cleaning up the banking mess.
"The great risk that we face now is that after a long period of
irresponsibility and excessive risk-taking, that the system will not
take enough risk now," he said.
The plan is the latest step in a series of aggressive actions to
restore credit flows and combat a virulent recession. Less than a week
ago, the Fed ramped up its efforts, vowing to pump an additional $1.15
trillion into the economy.
Geithner said investors will set the price for toxic assets through
the degree of interest they show in buying them, sparing the
government from having to make that decision.
One aim is to restart markets for securities not currently trading
and, in the process, tamp down investor fears that some form of bank
nationalization might have to be considered.
TAPPING OTHER FINANCE SOURCES
The Treasury and private investors would combine their capital and
turn to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, a U.S. banking regulator,
or the Federal Reserve for loans.
Under one part of the plan focused on sopping up bad loans, the
Treasury will provide up to 80 percent of the initial capital and the
FDIC would offer debt financing for up to six times of the combined
public-private capital pool.
A separate component, aimed at toxic securities, will have the Federal
Reserve broaden its Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility. That
$200 billion program will be bumped up to $1 trillion and will begin
accepting older mortgage-related and other securities as loan
collateral.
In addition, the Treasury will approve up to five investment managers
and match their money one-for-one. It will then offer debt financing
for 50 percent of the combined capital to buy securities banks want to
unload.
"My hope would be that you'll see ... the first actual loans within
the next 60 days, perhaps sooner than that," Lawrence Summers, head of
the White House National Economic Council, told Public Broadcasting's
"NewsHour with Jim Lehrer."
The plan aims to help set prices for poorly performing debt left over
from the U.S. housing market bust, while involving the market to avoid
the risk taxpayers will overpay.
Geithner's future may partly ride on its success. He has faced harsh
scrutiny over whether he could have stopped the AIG bonuses, and some
lawmakers have called for his resignation.
Two major U.S. money managers, BlackRock and Pimco, expressed interest
in participating.
"From Pimco's perspective, we are intrigued by the potential
double-digit returns as well as the opportunity to share them with not
only clients but the American taxpayer," Bill Gross, Pimco's co-chief
investment officer, told Reuters.
(Additional reporting by Jennifer Ablan; Editing by Leslie Adler)

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