Breakingviews offers an interesting partial solution to the conundrum TARP banks are now facing. Chafing at government oversight, many want to pay back the TARP funds as fast as they can. To that end, why not ask employees to invest their bonus money in a new capital raising venture? It wouldn't raise the entire amount.

Goldman Sachs took $10 billion in TARP funds and paid out $5 billion in bonuses. That's as close an any bank gets. Still, such an initiative would raise capital and give the bank some wiggle room. Would a bank ever require such an investment? I doubt it. If there's one thing employees love, it's a cash bonus. 

For more:
- here's the article via Fortune

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