Fed Gave Banks Crisis Gains on Secretive Loans

[The Northerner]

Credit Suisse Group AG (CS), Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS) and Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc (RBS) each borrowed at least $30 billion in 2008 from a Federal Reserve emergency lending program whose details weren’t revealed to shareholders, members of Congress or the public.

The $80 billion initiative, called single-tranche open- market operations, or ST OMO, made 28-day loans from March through December 2008, a period in which confidence in global credit markets collapsed after the Sept. 15 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

Units of 20 banks were required to bid at auctions for the cash. They paid interest rates as low as 0.01 percent that December, when the Fed’s main lending facility charged 0.5 percent.

“This was a pure subsidy,” said Robert A. Eisenbeis, former head of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and now chief monetary economist at Sarasota, Florida-based Cumberland Advisors Inc. “The Fed hasn’t been forthcoming with disclosures overall. Why should this be any different?”

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-26/fed-gave-banks-crisis-gains-on-secretive-loans-as-low-as-0-01-.html

[Autumn]

1. Gee I wonder who made sure that happened?

Assholes. Pay back for his fucking base.

[grasswire]

2. I didn't see anything about that in the recent HBO movie

"Too Big To Fail"

Whatever. Hollywood screenwriters can't keep up with the evil.

[Marblehead]

3. Audit the Fed

and get our stolen money back.

[WillyT]

4. K & R !!!

:kick: