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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-30-11 04:08 AM
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7. The Government will make $20 billion from the TARP loans.
"Taxpayers will recoup the full amount invested in banks, around $245 billion, and will make an additional $20 billion or so in profit, Massad said in a telephone interview Thursday."
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  -Watchdog: Regulators bowed to banks on bailout cory777  Sep-30-11 02:16 AM   #0 
  - So? I get those kind of breaks from government all the time!  No Elephants   Sep-30-11 02:24 AM   #1 
  - exactly. We, the people never get a break.  ixion   Sep-30-11 03:00 AM   #2 
  - You do realize that the "break" they got was the government allowed them to pay their tarp loans?  dkf   Sep-30-11 04:06 AM   #6 
     - Allowed the banksters to pay their loan?????  fasttense   Sep-30-11 05:49 AM   #14 
        - That is the "break" that is being given in this article.::letting them pay back the loans.  dkf   Sep-30-11 10:02 AM   #25 
  - Socialism for the banks and capitalism for the masses.  Citizen Worker   Sep-30-11 03:25 AM   #3 
  - Funny how we forget the government forced the banks to take those loans.  dkf   Sep-30-11 04:16 AM   #8 
  - Funny how we forgot that most of those Wall Street firms weren't banks until after they crashed.n/t  fasttense   Sep-30-11 05:53 AM   #17 
  - Most? You mean Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley? Two?  dkf   Sep-30-11 09:54 AM   #22 
  - Funny how YOU forget that there was an alternative  david_vincent   Sep-30-11 08:15 AM   #21 
     - They wanted to save Citi but didn't want to stigmatize them so they forced  dkf   Sep-30-11 09:56 AM   #23 
  - Socialism for the banks and feudalism for the masses?  RickFromMN   Sep-30-11 05:02 AM   #9 
  - They ain't gonna get bailed out again  PatrynXX   Sep-30-11 03:41 AM   #4 
  - Deleted message  Name removed   Sep-30-11 03:47 AM   #5 
  - The Government will make $20 billion from the TARP loans.  dkf   Sep-30-11 04:08 AM   #7 
  - Slight problem is that, with CDOs we took over we are now in the hole effectively 172 Trillion.  Katashi_itto   Sep-30-11 05:05 AM   #11 
  - Recapitalize the banks to 100 trillion? Where do you get this stuff from? Seriously?  dkf   Sep-30-11 09:57 AM   #24 
  - And the government lost how much?????  fasttense   Sep-30-11 06:01 AM   #18 
  - The real problem is, the banks are still too big to fail...can anything be done to fix this?  RickFromMN   Sep-30-11 05:04 AM   #10 
  - At this point no. Other than a Chinese Solution would be  Katashi_itto   Sep-30-11 05:10 AM   #12 
     - ?  cppuddy   Sep-30-11 05:47 AM   #13 
        - Thats the rub. They will end up starving to death...after us.  Katashi_itto   Sep-30-11 05:51 AM   #15 
           - The Bible even has examples for Debt forgivness I think its called "Jubilee"  Katashi_itto   Sep-30-11 05:53 AM   #16 
  - Were they really bowing, or were they bobbing for bribes?  Hubert Flottz   Sep-30-11 06:31 AM   #19 
  - K&R...n/t  Oceansaway   Sep-30-11 07:02 AM   #20 
  - Im shocked I tell yoou shocked  BadGimp   Sep-30-11 10:24 PM   #26 
 

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