Bailouts for Citi and Other Banks

Let's start with the numbers: City is currently trading at less than $1.50 a share, but the US government is converting its preferred shares to common stock at a price of $3.25/share, that's around $12½ billion of taxpayer dollars down the hole.

Between the US Government, and various sovereign wealth funds, it means that existing shareholders have gone from 100% of the bank to 26% of the bank....Let's be clear about it, they are insolvent, that's the only reason that the management and the shareholders aren't screaming bloody murder right now.

This is insane.