Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses, and other benefits last year, an Associated Press analysis reveals http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081221/ap_on_bi_ge/executive_bailouts
Globalist "Thank You" tokens for their minions who ripped TRILLIONS out of the a$$ of US taxpayers! The banksta bailouts were from the start and will always be a massive scam....what a complete F^&king CON JOB!
corporatocracy at work. the elite, a few well established families and business clans rule the country and pull the strings while the masses keep endlessly running in the hamster wheel to fuel the engine that makes the elite even stronger. not surprisingly, they emerge from the actual crisis even stronger while the poor pons carry the burden and misery across the next generations.
Hedge funds now eligible for loans from the Fed. WTH??? I guess this craziness really isn't going to end until we collapse: Hedge funds gain access to $200bn Fed aid By Krishna Guha in Washington Published: December 20 2008 05:01 | Last updated: December 20 2008 05:01 Hedge funds will be allowed to borrow from the Federal Reserve for the first time under a landmark $200bn programme intended to support consumer credit. The Fed said on Friday it would offer low-cost three-year funding to any US company investing in securitised consumer loans under the Term Asset-backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF). This includes hedge funds, which have never been able to borrow from the US central bank before, although the Fed may not permit hedge funds to use offshore vehicles to conduct the transactions.
AP IMPACT: Wall Street still flying corporate jets http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081221/ap_on_bi_ge/meltdown_corporate_jets