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>"and the amount to which they are subsidised by the government (especially recently)."

False. TARP has been paid back, at a small profit, to the FED, which returns the money to Treasury. The auto companies are a black hole of subsidies, but that's another story.



What about TARP's big brother, TALF (at least $1 trillion)? We don't even know where most of the money has been spent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TALF

"The way TALF loans were set up, 100 percent of any profit is retained by the borrower, but the Fed and the Treasury absorb any losses."


The US is not the only country in the world. And TARP is not the only bank subsidy in the US.




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