Fed secretly handed out $8 trillion

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by BigSalad, Nov 28, 2011.

  1. BigSalad

    BigSalad

    http://rt.com/usa/news/fed-trillion-reserve-bailout-401/

    Fed secretly handed out $8 trillion

    We knew the last bailout from the Federal Reserve was pretty big, but not until now did we have statistics on the actually tally. If you thought that the $700 billion bailout for TARP was big, get a load of this.
    Just exactly how big was the Federal Reserve’s bailout of the banks between the years of 2008 and 2010? Thanks to a Federal Request of Information Act gone fulfilled, America now knows the truth behind a colossal cover-up: almost $8 trillion.

    Ever since the Fed stepped in to bail out the biggest banks in the country, Ben Bernanke and company have gone to great lengths to keep the exact details of the transactions a secret, citing that the truth would cause concern for the world financial crisis far greater than what was already at hand, saying in particular that investors would step away from the “too big to fail” banks that were benefiting from the bailout. And while Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke went on the record to call the bailouts to even the most “sound institutions” only “marginal,” details of the FOIA request obtained by Bloomberg News now reveals that the Federal Reserve spent nearly half of the entire production output of the US during that span of less than two years — the biggest bailout in the country’s history — while going to great lengths to keep Congress and the American people in the dark.

    By March of 2009, the Fed had already dished out $7.77 trillion to save the US financial system, dwarfing other assistance programs several times over. As the financial sector was on the brink of collapse, neither the Fed nor the banks involved came clean with the truth, instead lying through their teeth to keep the total facts a mystery. Until now.
     
  2. Bob111

    Bob111

    Federal Reserve No More "Federal" Than Federal Express
     
  3. You are using very credible sources, like RT...

    Your European friends will have to do the same or face chaos...

    Actually, Bernanke didn't do enough. I know some Marxists would like to see the US collapse but that won't happen as long as the FED exercises its money monopoly.