Subsidies to Giant Banks Excedes $780B a year

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ah yes the good old "free market" at work in the US..what a fucking joke the US financial sector is!

Question for Liz Warren: How Many Subsidies Does a Zombie Bank Need? | Zero Hedge

 

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no such thing as free markets when govt micro manages the markets and economy.

 

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more free market news.


The U.S. Department of Agriculture is considering buying 400,000 tons of sugar—enough for 142 billion Hershey's Kisses—to stave off a wave of defaults by sugar processors that borrowed $862 million under a government price-support program.

The action aims to prop up tumbling U.S. sugar prices, which have fallen 18% since the USDA made the nine-month operations-financing loans beginning in October. The purchases could leave the price-support program with an $80 million loss, its biggest in 13 years, said Barbara Fecso, an economist at the USDA, in an interview.

The move would benefit companies that turn sugar beets and sugar cane into granulated sweetener, a business plied by American Crystal Sugar Co., Amalgamated Sugar Co. and U.S. Sugar Corp. The USDA wouldn't say how many companies have received loans, or identify them. U.S. Sugar said it doesn't have any USDA loans outstanding. American Crystal and Amalgamated didn't respond to requests for comment.

http://m.yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/f...t-bailout-234800763.html?.intl=us&.lang=en-us

 

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no such thing as free markets when govt micro manages the markets and economy.

the government that's bought and paid for by lobbysists. is that what you mean? because if it was simply a function of government, then all governments in the OECD would function like it does in the US but they don't. it's specific to the US because of lobbying and the use of private monies in the US election cycle.

 

[Dale Mabry]

We can't afford healthcare so the gov't gives money to sugar producers to make more sugar. Brilliant!