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The first objective is to reduce unemployment

Unemployment climbs today soared, because companies that ought normally to expand their operations and hiring do not and businesses to reduce their operations and lay off do so very quickly.

Companies should develop and employ cannot, because the generally depressed prices of financial assets do not borrow or sell obligations in a cost-effective manner. Governments should take measures to boost the prices of financial assets.

This brings us to speak of the plan of the Secretary to the Treasury, Timothy Geithner, plans to combine nearly 465 billion of dollars of Government funds with the private sector $ 35 billion and use them to buy financial assets at risk. The Treasury asked the private sector to invest 35 billion in the Fund of $ 500 billion to ensure that the fund managers are part of the plan and thus take reckless risks with taxpayer money.

Investors in the private sector should be more that happy to contribute to the $ 35 billion because they will be in a position to make a fortune after the prices of these financial assets will be closer to their normal value. If the Fund behaves well over the next five years with a return on investment of 9 year private investors will have a rate of return corresponding to the market from the risked their equity investment and the equivalent of an "annual management commission" equal to 2 of managed assets.

If the Fund does less well with a return on investment of 4 per year , investors will still have a rate of return interesting, although lower than the market value of 10 per year on their equity. And if the Fund does poorly losing 1 per year , they lose roughly 70 of their investments. These are interesting probabilities. Time will tell whether or not the financial invest in this Fund and participate in the recovery plan will receive a result benefit. But, if this is the case, they will win a most important fortune again to the State. And a return of 2 on investment is an annual premium that many investors of high level were willing to pay for private hedge funds with in addition an additional premium of 20 of annual profits, which the US Treasury will not pay.

The fact that the recovery of Geithner plan will probably profitable for the US State is just a sideline. The first objective is to reduce unemployment. 500 Billions of dollars invested in toxic assets will all reduce the number of risky assets that other private investors will keep. And the sudden emergence of five to ten funds, supported by the Government, which will publicly address to purchasers of assets at risk, will understand the markets what are templates used to try to assess these assets in the current context.

This dissemination of information should to some extent reduce the risk. When assets are regarded as less risky, their value increases. And when there are fewer held assets, the price also increases. With the rise in financial assets, businesses can borrow under more favourable conditions.

The problem is that the Geithner plan appears too modest between eighth and half of what it should be. Although the US administration has also taken other steps tax incentives, quantitative easing, and other uses of the bailout funds is not what it should.