The various bailout programs used to fight the financial crisis may end up earning a profit for...

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bbro Comments (7847)
 
And Iraq cost us....over 800 billion dollars...
15 Apr 2012, 03:48 AM Reply Like

haruglory12 Comments (53)
 
And the O man is throwing way and positives from that costly venture for political reasons. Exactly what is his foreign policy?
15 Apr 2012, 06:45 AM Reply Like

bbro Comments (7847)
 
Plenty of political blame on both sides for that costly venture,,,throw
the hubris of the American people in there too....
15 Apr 2012, 07:57 AM Reply Like

Lakeaffect Comments (693)
 
Yeah. And don't forget the 790 billion thrown away on O's stimulus program in 2009. You know, "never let a good crisis go to waste". And the upcoming multi trillion debacle of O'Care that is going to trash our healthcare system. Or perhaps Solyndra and friends. Or the Chevy Volt.

The point here is all these creeps have their own agendas that they finance with the unwilling particpation of the taxpayer. Bring back the Draft and Iraq and Afganistan never would have happened.
15 Apr 2012, 10:20 AM Reply Like

rasanders22 Comments (408)
 
Deficit in billions
year/deficit/president...
2011/1228/D/D/R
2010/1651/D/D/D
2009/1885/D/D/D
2008/1017/R/D/D
2007/500/R/R/R
2006/574/R/R/R
2005/553/R/R/R
2004/595/R/R/R
2003/554/R/D/R
2002/420/R/D/R
2001/133/R/D/R

What party had the majority during the largest 2 deficit spending years? Doesnt matter. Its all Bush's fault right?
15 Apr 2012, 06:32 PM Reply Like

headrock Comments (13)
 
you know what would be better at "earning a profit" for everyone? sheila bair's idea that everyone use the Fed carry trade to make a risk-free $200K a year. what could go wrong? i mean, an iPad2 had more computing power than the iPad so groceries and fuel have stable pricing, right?
15 Apr 2012, 03:54 AM Reply Like

rrs2205rrs Comments (24)
 
When will they deposit the earnings in my account?
15 Apr 2012, 04:18 AM Reply Like

haruglory12 Comments (53)
 
So the Fed buys the bottom of the market and that is all the money it can make?!! That is pathetic.
15 Apr 2012, 06:48 AM Reply Like

Lakeaffect Comments (693)
 
The story needs to be turned around. From whom are they making all this money? The bankers? I doubt it. Most likely, some sorry homeowner who's upside down or broke.

And, now that there's been a profit made, how long will it take for the politicians to grab it and spend it on more governmental "profit making" opportunities? Like what they're doing now with the unspent TARP allocations from 2008?
15 Apr 2012, 10:19 AM Reply Like

Moon Kil Woong Comments (8817)
 
The Fed is suppose to make money and turn over most of it to the US government. Where the rest goes to disappears to the secret shareholders who owns the Fed. It is a private company after all.
15 Apr 2012, 11:48 AM Reply Like

Mike Maher Comments (1773)
 
Thats based on Fannie and Freddie going from costing the US taxpayer an extra few billion dollars every quarter, to being profitable enough to pay back $100 billion dollars in debt over the next 10 years?

The link to the actual treasury slideshow is below. Nice charts, but I still dont see how Fannie and Freddie begin generating tens of billions of dollars a year in profits.

http://1.usa.gov/HXrhXP
15 Apr 2012, 04:25 PM Reply Like

Conventional Wisdumb Comments (1802)
 
I love government math!
15 Apr 2012, 08:48 PM Reply Like