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Drama Behind a $250 Billion Banking Deal

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Drama in Washington at the Treasury building on October 13, 2008, a Monday, as Treasury Secretary Paulson meets the chief executives of major American banks and asks them to sign term sheets at a 3.00 pm meeting, and no negotiating was allowed. At 6.30 pm all the term sheets were signed, Kovacevich of Wells Fargo protested that his bank had stayed out of the mortgage messbut practically everyone else knew they needed the capital and many had a fear of the unknown as Bank of America's Kenneth Lewis put it after witnessing events of recent days.


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