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According to the Huffington Post, for over a year now the U.S. Federal Reserve has been pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into foreign central banks, which are then using the funds to bailout financial institutions inside their own borders.
“The program has so far gone unreported in the mainstream media and is a major expansion of Federal Reserve involvement in the global economy,’ Ryan Grim of the Huffington Post writes. “It represents a stark break from the prior role of the Fed, moving it into territory more traditionally occupied by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).”
According to the Huffington Post, the Fed began injecting cash into foreign central banks on Dec. 7, 2007. One year later, the Fed had extended loans to other central banks amounting to nearly $600 billion. According to the Fed’s most recent report, that number is down to $314 billion as many central banks have repaid some or all of their loans.
Among the foreign recipients of U.S. taxpayer dollars are the central banks of Europe, Japan, Brazil, Australia, Canada, Denmark, England, South Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Switzerland and Sweden.
Deutsche Bank AG of Germany received $11.8 billion in taxpayer money through AIG. France-based Societe Generale received $11.9 billion and London-based HSBC Holdings, the world’s largest banking group, received $3.5 billion.
Yet, Obama’s White House economist, Larry Summers, on whose watch as Treasury Secretary in the Clinton administration financial deregulation got out of control, invoked the “sanctity of contracts” in defense of the AIG bonuses.
But the Obama administration does not regard other contracts as sacred. Specifically: labor unions had to agree to give-backs in order for the auto companies to obtain federal help; CNN reports that “Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki confirmed Tuesday [March 10] that the Obama administration is considering a controversial plan to make veterans pay for treatment of service-related injuries with private insurance”; the Washington Post reports that the Obama team has set its sights on downsizing Social Security and Medicare.
Originally posted by marg6043
This is what the AIG is been hiding out for so long and Glenn Beck was right on his stories so far.
According to the Huffington Post, for over a year now the U.S. Federal Reserve has been pumping hundreds of billions of dollars into foreign central banks, which are then using the funds to bailout financial institutions inside their own borders.
Deutsche Bank AG of Germany received $11.8 billion in taxpayer money through AIG. France-based Societe Generale received $11.9 billion and London-based HSBC Holdings, the world’s largest banking group, received $3.5 billion.
Submitted by Bob Fertik on March 18, 2009 - 9:55am
. Bailouts Spending
We now know AIG traders got their bonuses through blackmail - even CEO Edward Liddy admits it in today's Pentagon Post. The message from the traders is crystal clear: pay us handsomely or we will screw you royally.
Although we have wound down more than $1 trillion [of nearly $3 trillion] in the portfolio of the AIG Financial Products unit that is at the root of the company's troubles, there remains substantial risk in that portfolio. The financial downside for taxpayers is potentially very large, and that's why we're winding down this business.
To prevent undue risk exposure in the meantime, AIG has made a set of retention payments to employees based on a compensation system that prior management put in place.
For the sake of argument, let's stipulate that "the financial downside for taxpayers is potentially very large" since $1.6 trillion in derivatives still need to be wound down. But here's the question: why are we depending on AIG to do it?
Presumably the derivatives in the AIG portfolio have identifiable counterparties. Presumably those counterparties are large financial institutions, just like the counterparties identified by AIG last week.
Is it not a safe bet that those large financial institutions are also recipients of taxpayer bailout money through TARP
or similar European programs?
If that's the case, we have Taxpayers on one side of these derivatives, and Taxpayers on the other side too.
If that's the case, why don't we just let Taxpayers - via the Treasury Department - unwind the derivatives?
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Originally posted by jibeho
Obama is taking lessons in misdirection from Penn and Teller. With this AIG mess no one has apparently noticed the massive budget slash that Obama is giving to the military.
Meanwhile, China and Russia are planning record spending levels to modernize and expand their military programs. Russia wants bases in Venezuela and again in Cuba. We cut back and they expand. Hmmm...
Our Air defenses have been in constant deployment for nearly 20 years and are need of a major overhaul. Obama is spending money on catfish research in Oklahoma. Imagine the economic impact if 700 billion was infused into our defense systems.
We are going to get caught with our pants down under this administration and it is going to hurt.
Obama’s White House economist, Larry Summers, on whose watch as Treasury Secretary in the Clinton administration financial deregulation got out of control, invoked the “sanctity of contracts” in defense of the AIG bonuses.
Originally posted by Caminhando
Please....Halliburton???? I don't know because I wasn't around during the Bush years, but in order to make these comments, you better darn well have been railing against all the fraud that Bush's administration was fraught with for TWO TERMS.