2008 Bailout Documents To Be Released By The Federal Reserve

11-30-2010 • BusinessInsider.com/

Tomorrow, the Fed will begrudgingly release documents that may reveal which banks would have failed without a bailout. Ever since the Fed bailout in 2008, the public has only known that nearly every major US bank was bailed out. But of course that's because the Fed shielded us from the knowledge of which banks actually needed a bailout. A little background: In 2008, the Fed is said to have loaned to banks that didn't need bailouts in order to remove the stigma of being insolvent from the banks that needed one, which could have rendered the bailouts worthless. The Feds didn't want it to be one group of "insolvent, very risky" banks versus one group of "solvent, solid" banks. The documents released tomorrow may distinguish one group from the other. So it's no surprise that after Bloomberg's Mark Pittman requested the forms back in 2008 (before he died in 2009) as part of the freedom of Information Act, the Federal Reserve Board appealed to the court to avoid releasing the requested information. Here's what we'l find out: The amount of assistance each entity received The terms under which funds were disbursed

1 Comments in Response to 2008 Bailout Documents To Be Released By The Federal Reserve

Comment by 4409

Entered on: 11/30/2010 9:14:15 PM

I'm sure the FED will be honest and factual. I trust ALL private for profit corporations to give me the honest truth because they have no vested interests. They're in business because they love me and respect me enough to tell me the truth. :)

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