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Paulson Predicts Banks Are Done For, Shares Drop (AIG)(FNM)(FRE)(C)(JPM)(BAC)(WFC)

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Winter_2It has begun to dawn on investors. The news about Bank of America (BAC) and Citigroup’s (C) fourth quarter earnings is the beginning of the end of the private enterprise banking system in America. It may return in a few years, but not until the government decides it can sell the stakes it is accumulating as part of the financial bailout.

Henry Paulson today said that most of the second half of the TARP, the next $350 billion, is going to have to be sent to banks. If only half of that sum goes into the system to keep financial firms from failing, it will overwhelm their current market capitalizations. The government will own a large portion of the equity in the nation’s largest banks, whether that was it intention or not. What Barney Frank wants to do with TARP cash may become irrelevant.

Shareholders in banks are starting to catch on to their dilution problem. The stocks in BAC, JPMorgan (JPM), and Wells Fargo (WFC) are all down between 7% and 10%. The common stock of these companies is headed to the same place the shares of Fannie Mae (FNM), Freddie Mac (FRE), and AIG (AIG) ended up.

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BAC, WFC, FNM, FRE, AIG, C, WFC, JPM

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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