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Sweden's Fix for Banks: Nationalize Them

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The Swedes have a simple message to the Americans: Bite the bullet and nationalize. Sweden placed its banks with troubled assets into a so-called bad bank, where they could be held and then sold over time when market and economic conditions improved. In the meantime, it used taxpayer money to provide enough capital to allow banks to resume normal lending. In the process, Sweden wiped out existing shareholders.

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