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  • Jim Rogers calls most big U.S. banks "bankrupt"

    12/11/2008 6:03:58 PM PST · by rabscuttle385 · 86 replies · 2,711+ views
    Reuters ^ | 2008-12-11 | Jonathan Stempel
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - Jim Rogers, one of the world's most prominent international investors, on Thursday called most of the largest U.S. banks "totally bankrupt," and said government efforts to fix the sector are wrongheaded. Speaking by teleconference at the Reuters Investment Outlook 2009 Summit, the co-founder with George Soros of the Quantum Fund, said the government's $700 billion rescue package for the sector doesn't address how banks manage their balance sheets, and instead rewards weaker lenders with new capital. Dozens of banks have won infusions from the Troubled Asset Relief Program created in early October, just after the Sept...