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Conor Clarke - Conor Clarke is the editor, with Michael Kinsley, of Creative Capitalism. He was previously a fellow at The Atlantic and an editor at The Guardian. More

Conor Clarke is the editor, with Michael Kinsley, of Creative Capitalism, an economics blog that was recently published in book form by Simon and Schuster. He was previously a fellow at The Atlantic and an editor at The Guardian. He is also on Twitter.

Treasury to Banks: "Please Fire Everybody"

By Conor Clarke
May 7 2009, 9:28 AM ET Comment

This statement from the Federal Reserve seems to have the most stress-test preview details. The full, non-leaked results will be posted at 5pm tonight. The banks that needs more capital will have until June 8 to come up with plan, and until November 9 to implement that plan. But I thought this paragraph, tucked into the middle of the release, had a charmingly euphemistic way of suggesting that the banks might also consider firing a bunch of their managers:



In addition, as part of the 30-day planning process, firms will need to review their existing management and Board in order to assure that the leadership of the firm has sufficient expertise and ability to manage the risks presented by the current economic environment and maintain balance sheet capacity sufficient to continue prudent lending to meet the credit needs of the economy.

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