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November 13, 2008

Bloomberg Sues The Fed For Disclosure

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The LA Progressive
Lost in the wake of Henry Paulson's announcement Wednesday that Treasury is "changing direction" in how it doles out money in the bank rescue plan is a little-noticed lawsuit filed last Friday by Bloomberg LP, the business news wire service. It is suing the Federal Reserve Board's governors for public records that would answer two simple questions: Who is receiving $2 trillion in Fed loans and what collateral are taxpayers getting to support them?
That's trillion, with a "t."
And, yes, as hard as it is to believe, taxpayers don't know the identity of the borrowers to whom they are lending. They also don't know what kind of junk -- Stocks? Bonds? Three milk cows and a '69 Camaro? -- they are getting to collateralize the federal loans.
As Bloomberg wrote Monday, "The Federal Reserve is refusing to identify the recipients of almost $2 trillion of emergency loans from American taxpayers or the troubled assets the central bank is accepting as collateral."


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