They've got politicians and secrecy on their side. They can do anything to your tax money that they want to do. Who still doesn't believe in Wikileaks for Wall Street? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-07-06/goldman-took-biggest-loan-in-fed-program.html
Whatever happened to asiaprop? The biggest pumper of GS? The only thing these folks are good at is outright theft. Don't forget about the $5B Buffett lent to these thieves. There's probably even more money that we don't know about....yet.
Goldman said they never needed the bailout money because they were hedged. Now we know it was - with the Fed!
Maybe they have to lever up all their positions. When you have that much money you can move the Market
Indeed! 15B at 0.01%...you just don't say no to that. At the very least you buy T-Bills with it and pat each other on the back.
So $15bn at 1bp is a "subsidy" to Goldies of $2.4mil (as I mentioned in another thread). Is that what we're getting so excited about here?