http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601110&sid=apJRc8r_9GDE BAC is a major benefactor of TARP....
You dont need to be an analyst on wallstreet or at BAC to understand that the chances of this working out are about a 0.00001% chance. Some of these banks receiving free money are worth nothing at all, how they exist today is beyond me.
Friends on Capitol Hill. The same friends who are outraged at the bonus the research assistants received at I-banks but voted in a 3% pay raise for themselves for the super duper job they've been doing as congress critters.