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Open-Ended Bailouts Are Continuing

We’ve previously documented the fact that bailouts of the big banks are continued in stealth mode up to the present day.

True, the banks claim they’ve repaid the Tarp bailout funds … but nearly half of the banks “repaid” such bailout funds by borrowing from other government bailout funds (and the rest could only repay money by fudging their accounting and using stealth bailouts which are are a little harder to detect).

Indeed, the government has decided on perpetual bailouts for the too big to fail banks.

Some of the ongoing stealth bailouts include:

• Obama’s erroneously-labelled “jobs” act (and see this, this and this)
• The mortgage settlement (and see this and this; indeed, settling prosecutions for pennies on the dollar is always a backdoor bailout)
• Interest rate swaps
• The Transaction Account Guarantee program, an extension of FDIC insurance coverage to all transaction balances
• And the fed is going easy on the big banks in many other ways as wells

But the biggest ongoing bailouts include interest rate spreads, interest on excess reserves and other constant streams of bailout revenue […]

Big Banks Continue to Suck at the Government Teat With Never-Ending Stealth Bailouts

Posted on March 24, 2012 by WashingtonsBlog, hence “old news”, but the blog itself contains some really interesting numbers like 77% of JP Morgan’s Net Income coming from Government subsidies.