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

Re:Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (2009) by marcusgarvey on Monday February 09, 2015 @01:40PM (#9022808)

>How many entities do you know with almost 700bn in the bank?

None but no single institution needed that much. Private investors, especially when working together, could have certainly stumped up funds for individual institutions. In fact, in the case of AIG such an overture by Chinese investors was rejected: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/10/aig-bailout-trial-bom...

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Re:Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (2009) by toyg on Monday February 09, 2015 @07:12PM (#9024668)

That's not "private investors", that's the Chinese government. This would have had clear political implication (the Chinese already hold a lot of US debt etc etc), but regardless, it was Nation-States making moves -- basically the only players in the game, on that size of petty cash.

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