The Fed Spent $350 Billion Bailing Out Foreign Banks

Your taxpayer dollars at work… bailing out foreign banks.

The Fed spent $350 billion bailing out foreign banks during the financial meltdown.
Zero Hedge reported, via Free Republic:

One may be forgiven to believe that via its FX liquidity swap lines the Fed only bailed out foreign Central Banks, which in turn took the money and funded their own banks. It turns out that is only half the story: we now know the Fed also acted in a secondary bail out capacity, providing over $350 billion in short term funding exclusively to 35 foreign banks, of which the biggest beneficiaries were UBS, Dexia and BNP. Since the funding provided was in the form of ultra-short maturity commercial paper it was essentially equivalent to cash funding. In other words, between October 27, 2008 and August 6, 2009, the Fed spent $350 billion in taxpayer funds to save 35 foreign banks.

http://gatewaypundit.rightnetwork.com/2010/12/the-fed-spent-350-billion-bailing-out-foreign-banks/

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