How the banks make the big bucks

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Uploaded by on Jan 27, 2010

We keep hearing that the banks arent lending. The truth is they are lending and making a lot of money doing it, thanks in large part to one very special borrower. Senior Editor Paddy Hirsch reports.

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  • Why doesn't the Treasury not just buy from the Fed?

  • In other words it is:

    ONE BIG SCAM.

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  • Bonds that are issue by the government are considered risk free because the government could always tax ppl or print more money if it needs to give money back to the investor

  • I love the Bernanke drawing, these videos are great.

  • @millball the fed can loan money to other BANKS, which the treasury is not; hence the term interbank loans. What can happen though is that the fed decides to buy t-notes, bonds, assets, etc through quantitative easing which they have done 3 times in the past few years.

  • @sodafromyoda OOOoooOOHhh.. somebody got out of the wrong side of the bed.

    Just for the record; I DONT CARE ANYMORE... stop thankyou for all your wonderful, yet still unhelpful, comments. BUT STOP REPLYING TO MY MESSAGE! DX

  • @millball For reasons that will be explained to you when you take an economics class.

  • @farceadentus it took us only about 80 years to realize it ...

  • @stephenddblyth it gets money from taxes, hence why everything is taxed.

  • bonds risk free??? what a lie

  • BS.

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