From The Big Picture:
Top biggest banks and brokers are on pace to award $145 Billion for 2009, up 18% from the year before, according to a WSJ study.
This is based on two factors: Zero % money from the Fed, and a massive accounting — and legal — fraud.
How hard is it for any finance firm to make risk free money when they can borrow form the Federal Reserve at zero, and lend that same cash to the Treasury (by buying bonds) at 3%?
I suspect this is essentially...
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