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Here's How Our Fed Threw A Big Lifeline To European Banks
The Business Insider ^ | 5-10-2010 | Joe Weisenthal

Posted on 05/10/2010 6:45:39 AM PDT by blam

Edited on 05/10/2010 7:09:33 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Last night in conjunction with the big Eurozone bailout, our own Federal Reserve announced its participation in the party by opening up big dollar swap facilities with its European partners.

What's this mean? It's actually pretty simple.

Among the recent problems in the EU has been that banks there have had trouble gaining access to Dollars to meet the insatiable flight to quality Dollar needs in the EU resulting from this crisis. This is likely the result of U.S. institutions trying to limit their respective exposure to a contagion. As such, the Fed and the ECB will now act as middlemen or clearing houses for the currency...


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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banks; eu; europe; federalreserve; greece; youpaidforthis
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To: agere_contra
I guess this will end Obama’s promise of cutting the deficit in half?
21 posted on 05/10/2010 7:02:33 AM PDT by tobyhill
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To: blam
abc just announced that we are giving the EU 1 TRILLION dollars in supposed future tax receipts.

LLS

22 posted on 05/10/2010 7:03:18 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer ( WOLVERINES!)
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To: KarlInOhio
So instead of the Germans working to 75 years old so the Greeks can retire at 50, now the Germans and Americans can both retire at 72.

Retirement? Hah! Quite the optimist, ain't ya.

Just kidding. Sort of.

23 posted on 05/10/2010 7:03:28 AM PDT by EternalVigilance (TATBO! - "Throw All The Bums Out!")
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To: blam

It attempts to keep Europe healthy so they can continue to help Obama disparage and undermine the USA.


24 posted on 05/10/2010 7:05:14 AM PDT by Iron Munro ("You can't kill the beast while sucking at its teat" - - Claire Wolfe)
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To: blam

We have just crossed the Rubicon of global socialism without a shot fired.


25 posted on 05/10/2010 7:05:54 AM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: maggief; blam; onyx; STARWISE; hoosiermama; penelopesire
SCAM-A-RAMA--GANGSTER GOVERNMENT AT WORK Earlier, G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors asked the United States----the IMF’s largest contributor----for a whopping $108 billion to rescue bankers around the world.

Rahm said OKAY just as long as the usual cut was wire-transferred offshore to the usual notorious money laundering havens: Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Russia, India, Israel, Panama, the Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, the Cook Islands, Dominica, the Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Panama, the Philippines, St. Kitts and the Grenadines, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Monaco, Antigua, Tortola, BVI.

So Obama quickly obliged and asked Congress to fold the $108 billion into a war-spending bill, originally crafted to send money to US troops.

Sen Jim DeMint (R-SC) offered an amendment to take it out of the war bill b/c he knew this was an "international version of the domestic TARP" (containing the same billion dollar kickbacks).

But the Democrat Senate voted to keep the IMF bailout in the war-spending bill (thus guaranteeing Democrats that their percentage was intact).

26 posted on 05/10/2010 7:09:44 AM PDT by Liz (If teens can procreate in a Volkswagen, why does a spotted owl need 2000 acres? JD Hayworth)
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To: blam

THe USA is in economic devasation, and Obama is loaning money we don’t have to the lazy/murderous Greek Communist parasites.


27 posted on 05/10/2010 7:21:02 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember ("Subtlety is not going to win this fight": NJ Governor Chris Christie)
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To: silverleaf

LOL! — Our money is going up in flames.


28 posted on 05/10/2010 7:21:27 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: blam
Here's How Our Fed Threw A Big Lifeline To European Banks

Can we return the champaign?

29 posted on 05/10/2010 7:23:01 AM PDT by mlocher (USA is a sovereign nation)
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To: FormerACLUmember


THe USA is in economic devasation, and Obama is loaning money we
don’t have to the lazy/murderous Greek Communist parasites.

If we had a President, not a socialist demagogue, in The Oval Office,
the Greek government would have gotten the following phone call:
“Hello, America is BROKE. But we can give you the phone number of
our banker in Beijing. Otherwise, F-— off. We rescued you from
the Nazis, then the Communists. You’re on you’re own seeing how you’ve
embraced the Communist model.”


30 posted on 05/10/2010 7:34:19 AM PDT by VOA
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To: blam

Let me see if I get this straight...

US Banks are trying to limit their exposure to European debt and contagion (for many good reasons), so the US Government is doing an end around those banks and opening the US taxpayer to those very same risks instead with effectively no cap on the amount “we” could ultimately be on the hook for.

About right??

Tell me how does this fit into the US Budget, our deficit and the amount of money that has already been borrowed under a floating debt cap of $14 Trillion??

Let’s all stand up and give a warm Welcome to Euro-Mae....


31 posted on 05/10/2010 7:39:48 AM PDT by Bean Counter (We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office -- Aesop)
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To: crescen7

Musical chairs. Everyone keeps smiling and dancing around until the music stops.


32 posted on 05/10/2010 7:52:40 AM PDT by Eyes Unclouded ("The word bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -George Carlin)
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To: Bean Counter

“Euro-mea” Precious! And you know that this will end well; NOT!


33 posted on 05/10/2010 7:55:44 AM PDT by pingman (Price is what you pay, value is what you get.)
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To: blam

“Here’s How Our Fed Threw A Big Lifeline To European Banks”

Shorter headline: “Insolvents bail out bankrupts”.


34 posted on 05/10/2010 8:04:17 AM PDT by Oatka ("A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves." –Bertrand de Jouvenel)
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To: KarlInOhio
"now the Germans and Americans can both retire at 72."

Lazy bumbs! ;0)

35 posted on 05/10/2010 9:05:09 AM PDT by GonzoII ("That they may be one...Father")
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