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Forum Post: One Percenter Bailed Out Banksters Screw us over with Bernanke's Help

Posted 12 years ago on March 7, 2012, 12:07 a.m. EST by TheirLyingPropaganda (54)
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"In early November 2010, as the Federal Reserve began to weigh whether the nation’s biggest financial firms were healthy enough to return money to their shareholders, a top regulator bluntly warned: Don’t let them....

In March 2011, the Federal Reserve green-lighted most of the top 19 financial institutions to deliver tens of billions of dollars to shareholders, including many of their own top executives. The 19 paid out $33 billion in the first nine months of 2011 in dividends and stock buy-backs."

read it and weep

http://www.propublica.org/article/fed-shrugged-off-warning-let-banks-pay-shareholders-billions

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[-] 1 points by BradB (2693) from Washington, DC 12 years ago

good post ;) ... that one will take some study

[-] -1 points by JesusDemocrat (193) 12 years ago

Spread the other cheek for there are faithful and righteous democrats involved in this.

The lord works in mysterious ways.

[-] 3 points by francismjenkins (3713) 12 years ago

So mysterious, he's invisible and never allows empirical verification. Heaven will be full of fools :)

[-] 0 points by JesusDemocrat (193) 12 years ago

Yes and hell will be over-flowing with republicans. I'm having to hammer out a lucrative land grab deal, along with some military complex spending for means to keep the demons contained. We'll make sure the poor condemned heathens pay for it. ;-)

[-] 0 points by francismjenkins (3713) 12 years ago

I think Mitt Romney came up with this plan first :)

[-] 0 points by JesusDemocrat (193) 12 years ago

Yes, he invented it and has brilliantly worked with martyrs from our side to act out on these plans from over 60 years ago to this day.

He's got some wicked magic panties and a bad ass ouija board!