Thursday, January 15, 2009

Today's Outrage: Bank of America's Secret Backroom Bailout (BAC)

(Clusterstock.com) In mid-December, the WSJ tells us, Bank of America (BAC) went to Hank Paulson and threatened that if he didn't give the firm another TARP bailout, they'd abandon the Merrill Lynch deal and cripple the financial system. Paulson then apparently spent more money he didn't have, promising that he would rescue BAC yet again. (This a month or so after an annoyed Ken Lewis said he didn't want or need the original TARP infusion).

There is only one word to describe this: Outrageous.


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