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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: lorne who wrote (118712)11/30/2011 11:02:03 AM
From: Paul V.1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 224744
 
lorne, The Fed didn't tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn't mention that they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now that banks reaped an estimated $13 billion of income by taking advantage of the Fed's below-market rates, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its January issue.


Who was in office on that date, December 5, 2008?



To: lorne who wrote (118712)11/30/2011 11:17:19 AM
From: JBTFD  Respond to of 224744
 
I think that headline is wrong. It's $13 trillion not $13 billion.