Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 28 January 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Context Phase
Professor Edward Kane:
This solution would work for a while but the danger is what we saw in the case of the insurance firm in America, AIG. The firm was not even covered by the safety net but its creditors were. When the firm got into trouble, the creditors pressured the Government to rescue what looked like the firm but it really rescued the creditors and the jobs of the managers. The stockholders benefited because they were not taken over.