After more than two years of obfuscation, details of the largest bank bailout in U.S. history are beginning to emerge. The Federal Reserve secretly gave banks $7.77 trillion, allowing them to make an estimated $13 billion in profits from the central bank’s below market rates, according to a new report from Bloomberg News.
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