Article: NPL Auction Market Going Nowhere Fast.(Inside Take)

Byline: Paul Muolo

A little more than a year ago then-Treasury secretary Henry Paulson went hat in hand to Capitol Hill, imploring legislators to pass a $700 billion bailout bill - money that would be used by the government to buy delinquent mortgages from hundreds of failed banks, thrifts and Wall Street firms. He told legislators - and the public at large - that our financial firms had a major "clogged artery" and that if it weren't unclogged fast the patient (our financial system) would have a heart attack.

Of course, he planned on using some of that money to have Uncle Sam buy little old "ownership stakes" in certain banks - to send a message to the ...

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