Video - TARP CEOs strike it rich on taxpayers

Video - Blankfein, Dimon, Lewis, Pandit, Thain & Mack

Bailed out Wall Street CEOs cash big checks.  Another look back to last December as we await word on 2010 bonuses.

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Start the slideshow - 33 pics:

• Obama meets with his banker bosses at the WH...

Ken Lewis, Vikram Pandit, Jamie Dimon, Lloyd Blankfein and John Mack in all their failed-out, bailed-out, busted-out, bonused-out, arrogance.

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Have you seen this one...

• Spoof of the Mastercard Priceless commercials for TARP - Wall Street bailout thieves are named and numbers given

We will never pass up an opportunity to talk TARP truth.  Dean Baker destroys the grand illusion that the TARP was good for you.  There was no financial system save. 

TARP kept Wall Street in the business of paying bonuses (Blankfein - $125 million), aided by a confused and captured media elite happy to spew nonsense.

• It was Paulson fear-mongering 101...

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Background reading on TARP...

Tale Of The TARP Two Years Later: How The Elite Media Perpetuated The Lies

Meet Herb Allison: Minister Of Bailout Propaganda

Geithner's Magical Mystery Tour Of TARP Propaganda Has Little Use For Truth

TARP CEOs 'love taxpayers long time...'

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Comments

[john]

Here is a working paper regarding bankruptcy reform 2005 and its effect on foreclosures.

http://www.philadelphiafed.org/research-and-data/publications/working-papers/2010/wp10-16.pdf

Note that the website is .org and not gov. for those paying attention.

[DailyBail]

Mounting Debts by States Stoke Fears of Crisis

http://www.activistpost.com/2010/12/mounting-debts-by-states-stoke-fears-of.html

[DailyBail]

nice find john..i'll put that on my list for reading later today...

[DailyBail]

ECB steps up bond buys; officials to meet

LONDON (MarketWatch) — Euro-zone finance ministers prepared to meet in Brussels Monday as clear divisions emerged about the best way to contain the region’s debt crisis.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/imf-said-to-call-for-increase-in-euro-bailout-fund-2010-12-06

[DailyBail]

No, The Big Banks Have Not "Paid Back" Government Bailouts and Subsidies

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/12/no-big-banks-have-not-really-paid-back.html

Excellent piece from Washington...