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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCarnival gets a bail out while the USPS gets the middle finger from Trump.
What do we expect from a guy who takes children away from helpless parents?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/4/27/1940788/-Turns-out-Carnival-Cruise-Line-got-a-backdoor-multibillion-dollar-bailout-from-the-federal-reserve
According to WSJ, the cruise line company was dead in the water when it began looking to borrow billions in high-interest loans. They found a crew of hedge funds (called the consortium) willing to offer up $4 billion to $6 billion at an annual interest rate exceeding 15% and potentially give the lenders a stake in the company. But when the Fed entered, offering up billions that now included loans to companies with investment-grade ratings as well as purchases of their bonds, Carnival, and others, were able to lower those interest rates and grab a ton of taxpayer money by way of lender investment.
also this
Arison is the chairperson of the Carnival Corporation and a longtime sponsor of Donald Trumps career. After all of this bailout talk, Fortune reports that the Miami-based but Panama-incorporated company has no plans to come back to America and, you know, pay some taxes. Why should they when theyre already getting the America First treatment?
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Carnival gets a bail out while the USPS gets the middle finger from Trump. (Original Post)
uponit7771
Apr 2020
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SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)1. K&R!
Ferryboat
(922 posts)2. Government should have just refunded last years taxes
Oh wait maybe they can't because they don't.
MiniMe
(21,714 posts)3. Cruise lines don't even run under the US flag
Nor do they pay US taxes. Why are they getting bailouts from the US? I've been saying this ever since tRump has brought up bailing out cruise lines, Hell No!.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,328 posts)4. Fascism writ large. Socializing expenses and privatizing profits.
Cha
(297,156 posts)5. Shite.. I hope that BLOWS UP in
in big Bloated Assface.