Bank of America gets $138bn lifeline
source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7ebeb6b0-e35c-11dd-a5cf-0000779fd2ac.html
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As the banking industry continues to have massive losses tied to their "toxic assets," can someone tell me why we gave them the money in the first place? This is why the TARP was designed to actually PURCHASE the toxic assets from the banks not just inject capital or buy stock in the companies. It's not like we or the banks didn't know the losses were coming... Just wait until the 5-yr ARM's begin to reset...
"Bank of America will on Friday receive $20bn in fresh capital from the US government and a guarantee on most of a further $118bn of potential losses on toxic assets.
The emergency bail-out will help to cushion the blow from a deteriorating balance sheet at Merrill Lynch, the brokerage BofA acquired earlier this month.
Details of the BofA rescue package were released in Washington DC in the early hours of Friday morning US time, in a joint statement from the US Treasury, the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.
The capital injection comes the day after US lawmakers voted to release a second tranche of funding under the $700bn troubled asset relief programme (Tarp), and just hours before BofA reported a fourth-quarter loss of $2.39bn – its first loss since 1991.
Merrill Lynch lost a record $15.31bn in the quarter, though its results are not included in BofA’s figures.
The results came as rival Citigroup confirmed it would break itself up by separating higher-risk US consumer finance and securities businesses from its global commercial banking operations in an attempt to ensure its survival. The bank reported a fourth-quarter loss of $8.29bn."
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honusurf
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Get a Bankrupt America T-Shirt today by Nick Thompson- don't let your bank get you down!
- 3 years ago
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honusurf
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TonyDukes
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PLEASE TAKE A PAGE OUT OF HISTORY, OUR ONLY CHANCE FOR SOLUTION.
Andrew Jackson, when he identified the original BANK OF AMERICA but be a source of collective corruptness, loaning only to those who would reciprocate (pay offs) and the fact they had the power to print money for thier needs and the needs of thier selected few bassed on gold/silver reserve, took away the gold and silver and gave it to the states to distribute and invest as they saw fit, also ellmating unauthorized printing of money to bail themselves or aquire what their self indunce dictate to their corrupt lives.
I suggest we try to do the same, I for one, write my elected officials weekly begging for no more spending, not only do I not get compliance just as the majority of American's but they are so audacious and ego driven to not even reply.
It is time for a revolution and if needed, physcially throw many our of goverment or have our future ruined beyond repair.
- 3 years ago
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TonyDukes
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darkhorsejim
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WTF? How we do we stop this sustained & disgusting "there otta be a law" trend of converting our public funds into private hands & then sticking us with the bill? We're being robbed blind & seeming powerless at this point. I'd like to think it's licking the bottom of the proverbial trough by the outgoing & that come Tuesday, "Bailoutgate" should be managed with the utmost seriousness ASAP before the trail goes cold. Let's hope the incoming can & will prosecute the thieving bastards. And this is only 1 example of just how dismally the U.S. has fared in the last 8 years.
- 3 years ago
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darkhorsejim
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Commentor
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Check out tha fact that Thomas Jefferson Warned THE PEOPLE about what would happen if we ever allowed the bankers to get a hold of the MONEY and the Government
- 3 years ago
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Commentor
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Mark701
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If the US government handing out tax dollars ticks you off, take a look at this:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Offshore_tax_havens_of_US_corporate_0116.html
A list of major US corporations that ARE NOT paying taxes!
- 3 years ago
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Mark701
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krush_productions
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This is going to come back and chomp our asses later this year.
- 3 years ago
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krush_productions
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bluelaz15
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We should be ashamed that our government officials, individuals who are charged with looking out for the good the the PEOPLE, are instead roped into the wholesale sell out of our government. BoA received this money after purchasing Meryl Lynch, a move which was unnecessary and fueled by the desire for a higher market share by the bank which is already the largest in the country. If the US government and their associated agencies don't realize their reason for being as intended by the constitution, a government for the people, by the people, it may be due time for the American people to remind them that it is the people they work for and not corporate America. People are suffering, small businesses are shutting down and many large companies are cutting jobs at an unprecedented rate while a select few are benefiting. It's time the American people do some sole searching as well and realize that this is OUR government, it's about time we started to hold it accountable for its actions.
- 3 years ago
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bluelaz15
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TonyDukes
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Note the sign in the window of the featured photos, it says COINS UNITE, would be right if it said CONS UNITE.
As Bank Am and the govt supporters are running a con job on bill paying American's. Damn them all. - 3 years ago
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TonyDukes
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TonyDukes
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Good question, from our govt against our wishes, better question where's it going, I have perfect credit yet all my cards ceilings have been drastically cut down and they are re loaning money to failures. Make me sick.
Thank you for your comment.
- 3 years ago
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TonyDukes
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heatX
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okay... this is ridiculous. where is this money coming from?
- 3 years ago
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heatX
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rrawtry [removed]
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TonyDukes
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rrawtry:
Sir you comments are right on, many of us saw this years ago, but as you know who supports the Union's and who the Union's support.
I found you comment's objective, sensible and real, thanks for taking the time to post this truth.
Tony Dukes
- 3 years ago
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TonyDukes
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pissedoffinarkansas
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rrawtry:
It seems you've bought the bullshit hook,line, and sinker. Poor bastard!
- 3 years ago
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pissedoffinarkansas
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Mark701
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When this crisis started Bank of America bought up the investment giant Merrill Lynch. So here you have a bank in the middle of it's own meltdown that made a terrible decision by buying a company also in the middle of a financial meltdown, and we're giving them ANOTHER 20 bln dollars with no questions asked! Isn't this the kind of stupidity that created the financial crisis in the first place?
Compare this to when three Detroit automakers came looking for a total of15 bln and got the second, third and fourth degree about how they were going to spend the money. What is going on here? Why aren't congressmen asking BoA why they bought Merrill Lynch when their own balance sheets were so red? Why isn't congress demanding a recovery "plan" from BoA like they did the automakers BEFORE we hand them any more money??? Does the disparity here have something to do with the fact that Detroit is predominantly blue collar and union? Or is it simply that BoA has more lobbyists than the automakers??
People, there are 42,000 lobbyists in Washington D.C. So when Washington appears to do something that appears absurd, like handing another 20 billion to a bunch of greedy MORONS that apparently STILL DON'T GET IT you can bet your ass someone got paid off.
- 3 years ago
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Mark701
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TonyDukes
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Mark701:
Sir, I found your take on Bank America to be objective and speaking the feelings of bill paying American's. How pleasant to see a post with facts, intellect and the pulse on the American public that is being so abused by power brokers. I salute you. Thank you for information I did not have.
Tony Dukes
- 3 years ago
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TonyDukes
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pissedoffinarkansas
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Mark701:
It's not stupidity, It's being done on purpose.
- 3 years ago
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pissedoffinarkansas
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TonyDukes
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After the majority of US Citizen's sent request to representative's asking to not! This company was on of the first to accept and solicit accts. from illegal aliens. I'm tired of pricks in suites, draining the life blood of hard working American's to support anti patriotic leeches like Bank America.
Thomas Jefferson, said we should take it own ourselves to evict, those that mis use and abuse power. 'Bout time to act.
- 3 years ago
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TonyDukes
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brad62
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A $138 billions dollars doesn't sound like a lifeline. It sounds more like a fleet of expensive yachts.
- 3 years ago
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brad62
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cantspascua
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Oh great , Now they want money too to make up for the years people did not want to pay their outrageous service fees.
- 3 years ago
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cantspascua
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HaloedGriot
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This was all discussed in the movie Zeitgeist: Addendum...only difference is its out in the open. It was all expected to keep us enslaved to the dollar.
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HaloedGriot
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Ihatethemall
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because the auto companies arent run by the zionists
- 3 years ago
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Ihatethemall
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Elevator
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"Why, again, did we give the big 3 such a hard time before bailing them out?"
To pretend that we have a say and they aren't actually running the show.
- 3 years ago
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Elevator
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Ihatethemall
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we dole out money to the bankers because they are controlled by the jews and zionists and our own GOV is a zionist occupied GOV. we give them hundreds of billions of dollars shit you might just as well say a trillion at this point, but the auto makers must bow down and submit to all kinds of restrictions and conditions to get a lousy 20 million or whatever they got. meanwhile the bankers still fly their corprate jets and take their vacations and go to their spas. When I pay my taxes this april I wonder if I should just make the check out to the GOV of israel directly. it would save a little paperwork.
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Ihatethemall
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pissedoffinarkansas
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Ihatethemall:
You wanna get their attention?? A mass boycott of paying taxxes will definitely do that. And I think that's about the only thing left to do.Short of anarchy and rioting.
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pissedoffinarkansas
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Ihatethemall:
Blah blah blah...Yes, I'm sure that's what it is. And now that you are done with your delusional tirade, maybe you can go try and get yourself an education.
- 3 years ago
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amelie411
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justright
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And all of the companies getting bailouts (your tax money) don't pay taxes.
- 3 years ago
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justright
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EddieStarr
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Here is why I think the worst isn't even yet to come...
' ForeclosureRadar (www.foreclosureradar.com), the only website that tracks every California foreclosure with daily auction updates, today issued its California Foreclosure Report for December 2008 and year-end summary. Notices of Default have rebounded from the stall caused by California State Senate Bill 1137, which temporarily slowed foreclosures by imposing new requirements on lenders. With 42,421 filings in December, Notices of Default are back to the record levels reached in the second quarter of 2008, nearly doubling the 21,557 Notices of Default recorded in November..." -foreclosureradar.com
If Foreclosures are still at record highs and the banks are reporting on previous quarter's analyitics, mathematically I can deduce that the worst is yet to come, and another shoe (or two) is going to drop.
- 3 years ago
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EddieStarr
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ruebezahl
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Looks like they bought more bad stuff so they get more bailout money . How knows, they may even buy more bad stuff to get more bailout money so at the end they are sole banker for all USA people. Than they really go to town with demands. We may end up in their loving arms to depend on them as long as we live. The government will only be a pawn in the hand the world of finances.
- 3 years ago
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ruebezahl
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justright
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First, B of A avoids bad loans and claimed that they didn't need the initial bailout money, but took it so as not to make those banks that really needed bailout money look bad. Then they buy the then struggling Merrill Lynch (probably with the bailout money), and now they need a bailout because they were greedy and wanted a bigger piece of the pie. ridiculous
- 3 years ago
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justright
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damnneargenius
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You're just watching the trail at this point.
Call it the tail of the tiger.
- 3 years ago
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damnneargenius
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Dr_Dank_Thumb
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thats funny because their taking money from me...i guess my money isnt enough for BOA
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Dr_Dank_Thumb
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JohnA
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Talk about throwing good money after bad. We just bailed them out last month, now they need another bailout?
- 3 years ago
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JohnA
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dariusvons
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so... why was microsoft split up and yet Bank of america get's to be THE largest bank in U.S. history?... oh yeah because microsoft didn't have lobbyists.
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dariusvons
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SHAWN_RITTIMAN
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Just let them fall!
- 3 years ago
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SHAWN_RITTIMAN
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footystud
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I WANT MY BAILOUT!! I WANT MY BAILOUT!!
- 3 years ago
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footystud
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numinant
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funny, because it's the companies that receive the enormous bailouts that are the ones you should probably avoid. bankruptcy may have been a more productive route for them.
- 3 years ago
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numinant
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Saladin
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Jesus, I thought BoA stayed away from all the subprime shit. How are they having trouble?
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Saladin
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justright
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Saladin:
They got greedy and bought Merrill Lynch.
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justright
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Saladin:
can i buy a troubled company and get bailed out too? whaaaaaaaaaaa? Where's bizarro superman, I know he will reveal himself soon
- 3 years ago
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hammernails
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pissedoffinarkansas
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Saladin:
Have you guys not figured this out yet? It's got nothing to do with " toxic assets". It's about the plain robbery of the public treasury, pure and simple. C'mon poeple, don't be afraid to see things the way they really are! It's okay.
- 3 years ago
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pissedoffinarkansas
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Saladin:
Yes, in this case, this is close to a straightforward reading of the situation.
first, they did indeed have many fake or near-fake and hugely over-syndicated loans on their books, and they were indeed over-leveraged. just now as outrageously as Citi or Washington Mutual or IndidMac.
but second, they closed the deal for Merril only a month ago, two weeks after that saying they need 18 billion in help because the extent of losses at M-L had surprised them. how's that for due diligence.????
so, in this case, they bought Merril, cared not one whit for whether the price was legit, whether the asset (merril) was worth anything, 'cause they knew you and i--the tax-created TARP--would pay any differential if their guesses were wrong. and, they'd still have merril!
mergers and acquisitions with NO risk.
this is a rip-off, and no one should feel ashamed or crude for calling it simply that. - 3 years ago
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1percent
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Project Mayhem is well underway.
Pareo Nullus
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1percent
