Bailouts. Who and how much.
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"Goldman and a hedge fund client put together a ball of sub-prime junk designed to fail and then bet against it.
Goldman also took out insurance on those same mortgage backed securities from AIG, the same AIG taxpayers bailed out to the tune of $180 billion.
Goldman was paid a total of nearly $13 billion from AIG at the direction of Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner."
Eric Fry at the Daily Reckoning writes an article featuring the chart below that begins as follows.
He goes on in his article with an analysis of Goldman Sachs profits and bonuses some of which you can read below.
The entire article is well worth the time spent on it.