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![]() This should debunk some of the bull**** you've been fed about Obama's alleged dirty deals with companies. Gingrich was wrong when he said that Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke had ?spent hundreds of billions of dollars? on secret bailouts during the economic crisis. Under Bernanke, the Federal Reserve Bank has made trillions of dollars in loans, but these loans are not a net loss for the bank. In 2010, in fact, the Fed reported nearly $79.3 billion in profits, nearly all from interest income. Gingrich: Bernanke has in secret spent hundreds of billions of dollars bailing out one group and not bailing out another group. I don?t see anybody in the news media demanding the kind of transparency at the Fed that you would demand of every other aspect of the federal government. Gingrich?s statement implies that the Fed has funneled billions of taxpayer dollars to big banks without any oversight. But that is not true. There was an audit of the bank by the Government Accountability Office in July of this year. As a part of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Congress required a ?one-time audit of emergency loans and other assistance provided by the Federal Reserve System from December 1, 2007, through July 21, 2010,? the GAO explains in its report. That report found that the Fed took numerous steps to guarantee repayment of the large loans From factcheck.org. |
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