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The decision was in tune with the mood of the moment: Osborne had accused Labour of harking back to 1970s-style nationalisations in rescuing the banks, and the government was petrified of exacerbating the already febrile mood in the markets by appearing to seize control of the financial sector.

If RBS takes stakes in its ailing debtors, who knows what George Osborne could end up owning? 2012

A new wave of bank nationalisations would be likely to follow as lenders counted their losses on now worthless Greek debt.

There's talk of an exit – but default would have catastrophic consequences 2012

I suspect there will be immense political fallout from nationalisations.

Matthew Yglesias » The Need for Boldness 2009

Perhaps more pertinent to the point, nationalisations will prompt massive shareholder sell-offs in even the healthier banks because of fear of nationalisations, thereby making the problems worse.

Matthew Yglesias » The Need for Boldness 2009

And while you might expect that extensive nationalisations and conversions to worker ownership might lead to, at least, temporary drops in production due to the stress of economic restructuing, Venezuelan industrial production has stayed steady under Chavez, while agricultural production has grown.

Matthew Yglesias » Hugo Chavez, Inflation Hawk 2010

I mean, seriously, does material good does nationalisations except as a cathartic, spiteful measure?

Matthew Yglesias » The Need for Boldness 2009

The US Federal Reserve is examining the Nordic bank nationalisations of the 1990s as a possible interim solution to the US financial crisis.

Bush Slanders Freedom « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

In 2003 the US-supported government of Bolivia was toppled amid state repression and violence after long simmering anger over resource nationalisations and utility hikes in the desperately poor Andean nation.

Blowback in Kyrgyzstan Joseph Huff-Hannon 2010

The Greeks and the Italians decamped soon after when Nasser started his first round of nationalisations.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

The bank nationalisations are not like the postwar nationalisation or coal, railways, the NHS etc.

The banks' reverse takeover of Britain 2009