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Re:America's bailed-out airlines are not 'playing fair' with... by sfkdjf9j3j on Saturday March 28, 2020 @02:43PM (#22713328)
Is that actually true? TARP cost $426 billion in 2008 and when the assets were finally sold off in 2014, they summed $442 billion. So that's a 3.7% return during a time when the s&p 500 more than doubled in value.

Do you have some examples where the government made these returns?

Re:America's bailed-out airlines are not 'playing fair' with... by reilly3000 on Saturday March 28, 2020 @03:46PM (#22713815)
Right but they maintained a whole tax producing economic center including (probably) corporate taxes and income tax on hundreds of thousands of wages from the companies themselves and their suppliers. Breaking even on a bailout is pretty phenomenal given the broader implications.
Re:America's bailed-out airlines are not 'playing fair' with... by Retric on Saturday March 28, 2020 @03:51PM (#22713839)
That assumes they had no leverage and no other options. Raising the rates by say 4% and companies would still have taken the money and the economy would have reacted in the same way.
Re:America's bailed-out airlines are not 'playing fair' with... by hobs on Saturday March 28, 2020 @03:51PM (#22713843)
You're missing the opportunity cost of doing twice as well?
Re:America's bailed-out airlines are not 'playing fair' with... by deminature on Saturday March 28, 2020 @04:31PM (#22714098)
The TARP is still projected to net a $121bn profit for the taxpayer. Only a portion of loans have been returned to the government currently.

https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/

Re:America's bailed-out airlines are not 'playing fair' with... by Anon1096 on Saturday March 28, 2020 @03:58PM (#22713876)
You're assuming that the s&p would have done well had the government not enacted TARP. It's pretty agreed upon by economists that the bailouts of the GFC saved us from financial collapse.