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The Treasury Department says its bank bailouts are over, but the spending continues.
In a Sept. 22 speech, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the bailouts "are completely behind us."
That's not quite correct. In the final six months in which it could spend money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program, Treasury set aside $243 million for new contracts for law firms, accountants and money managers to help run what's left of the bailouts - on top of the $529 million already spent on work by staff, private companies and other agencies. Many of the contracts last until 2019, and the
Treasury officials continue to cast TARP as a success. Most of the Wall Street giants that got the first bailouts have reported another quarter of profits.
Yet Treasury still has no plan for recapturing investments from the banks that can't pay dividends or repay their bailouts. That program doesn't have an end date.
Originally posted by Dance4Life
The US Government has made 27 Billion Dollars in interest, dividends and stock warrants from TARP.
403 Billion Disbursed
207 Billion Returned
27 Billion in Revenue
The amounts you are quoting are nickels and dimes. And it certainly doesn't mean more trouble. The US is going to end up making good money on the full amount over time. Where that extra money goes is another story.
Originally posted by svpwizard
Originally posted by Dance4Life
The US Government has made 27 Billion Dollars in interest, dividends and stock warrants from TARP.
403 Billion Disbursed
207 Billion Returned
27 Billion in Revenue
The amounts you are quoting are nickels and dimes. And it certainly doesn't mean more trouble. The US is going to end up making good money on the full amount over time. Where that extra money goes is another story.
Your kidding right ???? government made money on money they borrowed in the first place?? your part of the problem thinking like that.
The only one who makes any money is the one getting interest on the fake money being loaned out. THE FED