November 29, 2011
The Post ran an article [sorry, it won’t allow linking] with the headline: “big banks got $13 billion in undisclosed Fed loans.” Actually, the article refers to a Bloomberg investigative piece by Bob Ivry and colleagues that found that Fed loans at below market interest rates amounted to a subsidy of $13 billion to the country’s largest banks. This $13 billion was effectively a gift from the taxpayers to J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and other large banks. It was not a loan as the Post headline implies.
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