The United States government, currently the largest shareholder in the Citigroup family of financial companies, may increase its share of ownership to 25 or even 40 percent.
The importance of this is explained by a simple graphic (above).
Image by Mike Licht. Download a copy here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com
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Tags: economy, goverment, Wall Street
February 23, 2009 at 7:20 am
So, uh, can we shoot Citi into the sun?
February 23, 2009 at 7:33 am
Malnurtured Snay:
If Citi crashes into the sun the resulting gravitational repercussions will destabilize the entire solar system. It has happened before, due to an eerily similar orbital eccentricity of this same bank.