Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (2009)

Re:Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (2009) by ThomPete on Monday February 09, 2015 @11:39AM (#9022048)

Not sure I understand. The difficulty of lending them out should just increases the risk of lending them out and therefore the need to recoup that risk by a proper margin.

Thats not what happened when the banks regardless of contracts still gave out large bonuses many times more than the return to the taxpayers.

That simply doesn't add up.

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Re:Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (2009) by smileysteve on Sunday February 15, 2015 @07:31PM (#9054756)

The risk of not lending the banks out is a depression where the currency / global economy may have lost more value.

Example: The gov only made 8.5%, but if the US costs have increased 16% over the same period (because of a depression), the overall return is more like 24.5%, ignoring the additional costs of a depression.

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