2016 Postmortem

FraDon

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6. ... this Bernie? • he KNOWS from Socialism

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Sun Mar 20, 2016, 09:59 AM

Mar 2016

What did "they the people" of tiny Iceland do with their Banksters?

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Bernie Sanders Calls Federal Reserve "Socialism for the Rich" After $16 Trillion Secret Bail-Outs... [View all] Octafish Mar 2016 OP

Disgusting. tazkcmo Mar 2016 #1

Seeing how Detroit goes bust while trillions flow for UBS and other banks around the world... Octafish Mar 2016 #4

I was just out there a week and a half ago. VulgarPoet Mar 2016 #46

Hillary is all about protecting the Worst Offenders from prosecution FreakinDJ Mar 2016 #2

She's like President Obama that way, helping Bankers over Homeowners Octafish Mar 2016 #8

They have some thing in common - Third Way Campaign Donors FreakinDJ Mar 2016 #9

"Hillary Helps a Bank—and Then It Funnels Millions to the Clintons" Ghost Dog Mar 2016 #20

Isn't that US politics in a nut shell? Brother_Love Mar 2016 #38

+1 /nt RiverLover Mar 2016 #43

This message was self-deleted by its author PonyUp Mar 2016 #3

The Government’s Entire 2008 Bank Bailout Strategy Was to Cover Up the Truth Octafish Mar 2016 #13

K&R! vintx Mar 2016 #5

Tim Geithner sacrificed homeowners to “foam the runway” for the banks Octafish Mar 2016 #16

Didn't HRC blame the homeowners? vintx Mar 2016 #29

... this Bernie? • he KNOWS from Socialism FraDon Mar 2016 #6

Iceland hired William K. Black to prosecute the crooks. Octafish Mar 2016 #11

This is really bad for the rest of us. Major Hogwash Mar 2016 #7

That's what I thought, too. It seems We the People are at the bottom of the Pecking Order. Octafish Mar 2016 #19

This should be an enormous scandal. surrealAmerican Mar 2016 #10

The Lies of Neoliberal Economics (or How America Became a Nation of Sharecroppers) Octafish Apr 2016 #47

Don't worry. President Clinton will tell them to "Cut it out!" -nt CrispyQ Mar 2016 #12

Gee where are the CLinton suporters Ferd Berfel Mar 2016 #14

Pretty soon.. speaktruthtopower Mar 2016 #15

Not even unsecured loans: gifts, really. Ghost Dog Mar 2016 #21

K&R for the original post and subsequent informative posts and links. Bookmark. JEB Mar 2016 #17

Nomi Prins agrees: amborin Mar 2016 #18

Geez - almost the size of the National Debt FreakinDJ Mar 2016 #28

Just to prove a point about how a lot of people don't know what they're talking about... Zynx Mar 2016 #31

do you? it's a giant, taxpayer-funded federal credit card for huge corps short on funds amborin Mar 2016 #32

Commercial paper is very short term debt that usually is issued without much difficulty. Zynx Mar 2016 #33

did cash-strapped homeowners and main streeters get a comparable federal credit card? amborin Mar 2016 #34

American Inequality Didn’t Just Happen. It Was Created. Ghost Dog Mar 2016 #22

Telling it like it is, Bernie!! The Real Man from Vermont NOT to be confused with that sell out Hiraeth Mar 2016 #23

K&R. It is sad that I didn't remember this. Preferred to think "they paid back the bailouts." Overseas Mar 2016 #24

KnR! n/t Holly_Hobby Mar 2016 #25

Almost nothing about the description of what happened with the Fed lending there is correct. Zynx Mar 2016 #26

Yes, "financial assets rise along with upper tier incomes" Ghost Dog Mar 2016 #40

From QE1 to QE9999 they gave away our Tax Dollars by the $Trillions FreakinDJ Mar 2016 #27

Kicked, recommended and bookmarked. Thanks Octafish for this and your other great posts. Scuba Mar 2016 #30

I hope this article will inspire the Clinton$ to give back all that money Karmadillo Mar 2016 #35

K & R AzDar Mar 2016 #36

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Mar 2016 #37

^ Wilms Mar 2016 #39

K & R Duppers Mar 2016 #41

"Republicans and independents are more likely to support ending the Fed, pampango Mar 2016 #42

THIEVES. K&R Jefferson23 Mar 2016 #44

$16,000,000,000,000 yep, that's $16 trillion-it is the shift to CORPORATE WELFARE-which has to go... bobthedrummer Mar 2016 #45