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Jerry442

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6. $83,000,000,000 ain't the half of it.

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Thu Mar 21, 2013, 11:01 AM

Mar 2013

When you know you can count on the Fed to loan you $billions anytime practically for free, that's got to be worth a lot. Oh yeah, and those get-out-of-jail-free cards that every TBTF bank gets, what's the fair market value on them?

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Without Taxpayer Help, Too Big to Fail Banks Would Only Break Even [View all] Fire Walk With Me Mar 2013 OP

This is amazing, and if really true, and since it's from Bloomberg it is definitely sabrina 1 Mar 2013 #1

"... an $83 billion annual taxpayer subsidy to the 10 largest U.S. banks ..." Scuba Mar 2013 #2

Add to that the subsidies we give to the Big Oil corporations and we could wipe out sabrina 1 Mar 2013 #3

These welfare queens need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps and quit livin off the guvn'mint Downtown Hound Mar 2013 #4

Nah. They'd go UNDER Demeter Mar 2013 #5

$83,000,000,000 ain't the half of it. Jerry442 Mar 2013 #6

HUGE K & R !!! WillyT Mar 2013 #7

Use local banks and credit unions for all your banking needs, screw the giants. xtraxritical Mar 2013 #8

So, these "super hero" CEOs that must be paid HUGE amounts of money AndyA Mar 2013 #9

I remember that, the claim that we had to pay them exhorbitant amounts of money, even after they sabrina 1 Mar 2013 #11

Gov't assisted thievery. nt limpyhobbler Mar 2013 #10