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MindMover

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2. Hundreds of Billions has supposedly been paid back.....

Reply to Traveling_Home (Reply #1)

Fri May 11, 2012, 02:10 AM

May 2012

as you well know, there is a difference between hundreds and thousands.....

paid back is like asking your wife to pay you back for the money she borrowed to wash your clothes,

not really money that we are dealing with, just numbers on balance sheets and ledgers...

and, Most of the reasons our politicians talk about austerity and banks do not lend is because of these unbelievable numbers.....

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CORRECTION: Erin Burnett on CNN says we gave the banks $250 billion..... [View all] MindMover May 2012 OP

Did they pay this back? Traveling_Home May 2012 #1

Hundreds of Billions has supposedly been paid back..... MindMover May 2012 #2

That reminds me of that Onion piece: freshwest May 2012 #5

Oh, well, what's a few trillion here or there or even over there... freshwest May 2012 #3

That's a lot of money, but... TreasonousBastard May 2012 #4

See, now there you go: '...the discount window open during a crisis...' freshwest May 2012 #6

I do that to confuse people who... TreasonousBastard May 2012 #8

I think we are past that point..... MindMover May 2012 #9

If all that had been given to everyone in America newfie11 May 2012 #7

That's what I thought, too. Like give a course to each person who might not have planning skills and freshwest May 2012 #10