praxis1966
18th September 2011, 19:00
I don't know why I'm surprised. I should be old enough to be sufficiently cynical by now...
First Federal Reserve Audit Reveals Trillions in Secret Bailouts
by Matthew Cardinale
The first-ever audit of the U.S. Federal Reserve has revealed 16 trillion dollars in secret bank bailouts and has raised more questions about the quasi-private agency’s opaque operations.
http://www.commondreams.org/sites/commondreams.org/files/imagecache/headline_image/article_images/federal_reserve_bank_of_new_york.jpg
7000 metric tons of gold bars sit in the gold vault inside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
"This is a clear case of socialism for the rich and rugged, you’re-on-your-own individualism for everyone else," U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, said in a statement.
The majority of loans were issues by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY).
"From late 2007 through mid-2010, Reserve Banks provided more than a trillion dollars… in emergency loans to the financial sector to address strains in credit markets and to avert failures of individual institutions believed to be a threat to the stability of the financial system," the audit report states.
"The scale and nature of this assistance amounted to an unprecedented expansion of the Federal Reserve System’s traditional role as lender-of-last-resort to depository institutions," according to the report.
Full Text (http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/28-3)
First Federal Reserve Audit Reveals Trillions in Secret Bailouts
by Matthew Cardinale
The first-ever audit of the U.S. Federal Reserve has revealed 16 trillion dollars in secret bank bailouts and has raised more questions about the quasi-private agency’s opaque operations.
http://www.commondreams.org/sites/commondreams.org/files/imagecache/headline_image/article_images/federal_reserve_bank_of_new_york.jpg
7000 metric tons of gold bars sit in the gold vault inside the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
"This is a clear case of socialism for the rich and rugged, you’re-on-your-own individualism for everyone else," U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, said in a statement.
The majority of loans were issues by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (FRBNY).
"From late 2007 through mid-2010, Reserve Banks provided more than a trillion dollars… in emergency loans to the financial sector to address strains in credit markets and to avert failures of individual institutions believed to be a threat to the stability of the financial system," the audit report states.
"The scale and nature of this assistance amounted to an unprecedented expansion of the Federal Reserve System’s traditional role as lender-of-last-resort to depository institutions," according to the report.
Full Text (http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/08/28-3)