[Jack Black]

The Fed returns all profits not needed for operations to the Gov at the end of each year. It is a substantial amount. If some of the bailouts don’t work the Fed won’t be returning that money, they’ll be using it to offset their losses.

This is a weird development.

[ThePythonicCow]

This may be a weird development, but I don't see where the Fed returning its profits matters much here. I don't have numbers offhand, but I'd imagine that the "Feds profits" are less than one per-cent of the Trillions of dollars in play here.