Sources: Big Banks Petition to Repay TARP Funds


	Sources: Big Banks Petition to Repay TARP Funds

ratilfar

5-20-2009 11:50 AM

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bank, bailouts, tarp, money, economy, goverment, taxpayer, deficit

ratilfar says:

That in no way mans that Congress and the Obama administration should defer from re-establishing a healthy regulatory scheme, but guess what, it makes that HUGE deficit not so big any more! Now if Halliburton/Blackwater would do the same.

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5-20-2009 3:58 PM

sobriquet2

They can't win can they? If they don't repay then it is the private profit and public loss argument and if they repay it then they are rapacious capitalists - seems to me i'd like it repaid.

5-20-2009 4:36 PM

ratilfar

Seems only reasonable.

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