More Than $100 Billion in Subsidies for Too Big to Fail Banks – Truthdig

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A Bloomberg Markets magazine study estimates that dirt-cheap borrowing programs and other benefits have saved the nation’s six largest banks—JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley—$102 billion…

OUR COMMON GROUND Omnibus‘s insight:

"Hilariously, big bank officials briefly considered pushing smaller community banks—which don’t enjoy the subsidy that the big banks get and are thus at a competitive disadvantage—to help them with the pushback, the WSJ reported. Wisely, they dropped the idea."

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