The Credit Crisis and Me (For Business Student)

As an MBA student planning on a career in finance, I am deeply disturbed by the ongoing credit crisis taking place not only in the United States but also across the world. The government-financed bailout of $250 billion for various major banks, as described by Lohr (2008), may provide a temporary cushion to allow larger banks and some smaller banks to remain solvent. The question remains as to whether or not the bailout represents a plan that will succeed in restoring confidence in failing or troubled institutions. In addition, while this is a crisis measure in a time of crisis, I cannot help but be concerned that it foreshadows a movement in which major financial institutions will be owned and therefore controlled by the government. It is indeed, as Lohr (2008,

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