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Buffett Tells Country, TARP Gave Over $1 Billion to Goldman Sachs

By Implode-Explode Heavy Industries

``The Treasury boasted of getting a $1.1 billion profit on its loans to Goldman, but as Mr. Buffet showed, this was far below the market rate of interest on loans to Goldman at the time. The difference between the return received by Buffett and the return received by the Treasury was in effect a gift from taxpayers to the top executives at Goldman and their shareholders. When Treasury Secretary Geithner and other officials claim that the government made money on the TARP loans it is either due to their ignorance of the workings of financial markets or a deliberate effort to deceive the public.''

Full post as published by Mortgage Lender Implode-o-Meter on March 19, 2011 (boomark / email).