Even without reading through the article first, I knew that you were referring to TARP. They might've gotten a "profit" on TARP, but the government gave them a lot more than just TARP, through other programs, and some of the banks even used the money from other programs that they were supposed to use to finance small businesses, to pay back the TARP loan.
Bottomline is, the government may have gotten the money back on TARP, but I think they gave the banks a lot more, and it was a net loss. I mean we didn't even know about the $7.7 trillion the Fed printed to loan to banks in both US and through out the world. Those loans were secret. How do we know they paid them back or not?
