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    Study by The Fed exonerates The Fed's crisis-era bailouts

    This Is Good Enough for Me

    (Reuters) - A study by economists at one of the regional Federal Reserve banks has found that the U.S. central bank didn't break any laws in its handling of the 2007-09 U.S. financial crisis, and that, in fact, it handled that crisis better than the savings and loan collapse of the 1980s.


    The Federal Reserve had attracted scorn when it loaned hundreds of billions of dollars to troubled banks during the 2007-09 crisis, with some critics suggesting the bailout broke the law.

    "The authors find no evidence that the Federal Reserve ever exceeded statutory limits during the recent financial crisis, recession, and recovery," said the study by the St. Louis Fed bank, which sought to find out whether the Fed had violated "the letter or spirit of the law" by lending to undercapitalized banks.

    The financial crisis was, in part, brought on by aggressive securitization by financial institutions, lax regulations, and a bursting of the subprime mortgage-market bubble in 2007.

    At the height of the crisis - which spread to international markets and sparked a brutal global recession - the Fed took unprecedented emergency actions well beyond its traditional use of interest rates to backstop both banks and the market.

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/study-...182328844.html
    Last edited by stu2002; 05-04-2012 at 06:32 AM.



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    Hitler didn't break any laws either did he?

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    The thief says he never robbed the bank.
    Rand Paul 2016

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    Quote Originally Posted by ronpaulfollower999 View Post
    The thief says he never robbed the bank.
    True dat

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    Based on their record, what did you expect ?

    Really, this should not come as a surprise to anyone.

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    Isn't that special?

    They can exonerate themselves while putting us behind bars for life without a trial.

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    Quote Originally Posted by luctor-et-emergo View Post
    Based on their record, what did you expect ?

    Really, this should not come as a surprise to anyone.
    I'm surprised that they exonerated themselves. They should have let a "third party" do it. It even sounds so dirty!

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    Quote Originally Posted by RickyJ View Post
    Isn't that special?

    They can exonerate themselves while putting us behind bars for life without a trial.

    Fo shizzle. I grew up with people who taught me, "Do as I say, not as I do". They are called Parents. I dont need another parent in the form of government. Quit $#@!ing over my kids to keep your house of cards intact. Its going to fail, thats what false forms of value do.



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