Hats Off to Bernie and the Gang: First Federal Reserve Audit Reveals Trillions in Secret Bailouts

By Matthew Cardinale, Inter Press Service
29 August 11

he first-ever audit of the US Federal Reserve has revealed $16 trillion dollars in secret bank bailouts and has raised more questions about the quasi-private agency’s opaque operations.  “This is a clear case of socialism for the rich and rugged, you’re-on-your-own individualism for everyone else,” US Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent from Vermont, said in a statement.

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A Call to Action – Geithner Must Go!

Last week, undercover, [we] the government bought the servicing rights to 400,000 Bank of America bad loans – quoted as the worst loans and this is just a pittance of what Countrywide and Bank of America wrote during the subprime catastrophe that collapsed the American economy. Apparently, with very little forethought [we] the government agreed to “buy” these servicing rights that will on average cost an additional $10k – $50,000 to service, maintain and/or foreclose. Who was behind this imbalanced deal? Continue reading