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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 06:56 PM Original message |
Bank of America to repay $45 billion to US (TARP) |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 07:01 PM Response to Original message |
1. With 5% interest. Taxpayers have already gotten over $70B+ in interest payments from other banks. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 07:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. You're pleased to be out over $100B and assured a final loss of.. |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 07:54 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Does your doomsday crystal ball predict the end of the universe, too? |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:15 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Funny you should ask, since in a former life I was a cosmologist. |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:18 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. So does that mean you know when the universe ends or not? |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:34 PM Response to Reply #7 |
12. Way to avoid the topic. |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 09:01 PM Response to Reply #12 |
34. What I avoid is disingenuous out-of-date/cut-and-paste doomsday blather. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 09:13 PM Response to Reply #34 |
41. News from today and a week ago is out of date? |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 09:46 AM Response to Reply #41 |
45. See Reply #10. Lather, rinse, repeat. |
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PBS Poll-435 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:20 PM Original message |
Wells Fargo is going to be fine. Even after they saved the US Government's behind |
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PBS Poll-435 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:20 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. .. |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:30 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. "The TARP Inspector General stated very plainly that " And |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:43 PM Response to Reply #10 |
17. We're still losing tens of billions, even after the BAC repayment. |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:46 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. "disingenuous of bailout apologists to pretend that the relatively miniscule [TARP]..." |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:56 PM Response to Reply #22 |
31. First, you're not an administrator of this site, therefore it isn't really your place.. |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 09:05 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. "tell me what I can post in this thread"? |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 09:42 PM Response to Reply #35 |
43. The fact that BAC got a $45 Billion interest free infusion through the FDIC.. |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 09:51 PM Response to Reply #43 |
44. "Are you sure about that?" Yes, you conflate, you spin, you predict doom |
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Clio the Leo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:44 PM Response to Reply #1 |
19. I KNEW I didn't dream that..... |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 09:06 PM Response to Reply #19 |
36. You didn't. |
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doc03 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
2. That should pay for the troop surge in |
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Cha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 07:38 PM Response to Original message |
3. Obama and Biden got in to take of all the |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:24 PM Response to Original message |
9. Catch 22 |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:31 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. "This is neither good news or bad news." Nonsense |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:37 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. When the FED chairman and Treasury Sec. are complaining banks aren't lending |
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PBS Poll-435 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:39 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Just which section of the balance sheet do you think BoA's TARP money resides? |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:41 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. I'm guessing they are paying the Treasury back in Cash or a Cash Equivalent |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 09:09 PM Response to Reply #16 |
38. They're raising $20 billion by diluting the common stock by another 15%. |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 09:12 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. They've been hoarding cash for months |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 09:18 PM Response to Reply #40 |
42. But they won't be paying back the $45 Billion in TLGP borrowings.. |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:41 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. You are conflating two issues |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:44 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Do you understand how a bank works |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:48 PM Response to Reply #18 |
24. Do you? |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:49 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Yes but if credit is really the life blood of the American economic sector |
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ProSense (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:53 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. "Do you see the duplicity. " |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:55 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. No, if I was trying to spin I'd say this is awful. |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:47 PM Response to Reply #11 |
23. The money was simply funneled from another government handout.. |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:53 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. Doubt that |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:45 PM Response to Reply #9 |
20. They already paid $2.5B in dividends, but paid off early to save $3.5B |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:46 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. In the long term we are all dead |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:48 PM Response to Reply #21 |
25. Soon enough I'm sure |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:51 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. They are destroying their own future economic prospects |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:58 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. Probably |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 08:59 PM Response to Reply #32 |
33. They'll merge with a Regional Bank and take their name |
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HughMoran (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 09:08 PM Response to Reply #33 |
37. Union Bank vagina preferred over Walmart puckered anus |
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AllentownJake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-02-09 09:10 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. Now that is the funniest thing I've read all day |
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cry baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 12:33 PM Response to Original message |
46. a lot of that $ comes from my daughter's overdratft fees!!! she is 21... |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 01:08 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. Thanks for the light comic relief! |
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cry baby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 01:45 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. ;-) |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-03-09 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
48. Great news! Making money while saving the world is always a good thing! nt |
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ClarkUSA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-04-09 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
50. "Bank bailouts appear to be paying off." (sourced link and quotes -->) |
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