http://livingoffdividends.com/2008/09/17/so-whos-really-bailing-out-the-financial-industry/ Join me on my journey to achieve financial independence through dividends, passive income and investments Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:23:08 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 http://livingoffdividends.com/2008/09/17/so-whos-really-bailing-out-the-financial-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-16994 Weekly Dividend Investing Roundup - September 27, 2008 » The Dividend Guy Blog Sat, 27 Sep 2008 11:00:50 +0000 http://livingoffdividends.com/?p=832#comment-16994 [...] really bailing out the [...] [...] really bailing out the [...]

]]> http://livingoffdividends.com/2008/09/17/so-whos-really-bailing-out-the-financial-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-15699 moom Fri, 19 Sep 2008 03:51:48 +0000 http://livingoffdividends.com/?p=832#comment-15699 You can't count the amount the Fed and Treasury lent or invested and say that's a cost to the taxpayer. Fact is we don't yet know whether these government investments will result in losses or profits. It is the return on the investments that will be the cost or the profit to the taxpayer. And there are precedents for the government making money on such deals. Even in the worst case the cost would be far below the total invested. You can’t count the amount the Fed and Treasury lent or invested and say that’s a cost to the taxpayer. Fact is we don’t yet know whether these government investments will result in losses or profits. It is the return on the investments that will be the cost or the profit to the taxpayer. And there are precedents for the government making money on such deals. Even in the worst case the cost would be far below the total invested.

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