Wall Street sits down, presumably, to its Thanksgiving dinner today. They have a lot to be thankful for.
Here, FT Alphaville presents a visual representation of Wall Street’s bailout Thanksgiving feast
To start, AIG gets the turkey. With a government loan of over $123bn — the insurer’s sitting pretty at the head of the table. Plus, if Wall Street was doing Thanksgiving parties, they’d throw the best one. 
Citigroup gets mashed (potatoes). Paulson may have screwed them over with his Tarp CMBS U-turn but they still got something — a $45bn capital infusion and the absorption of losses beyond $29bn. Small potatoes (da-dum) by AIG standards but still tasty notheless.
Fannie & Freddie get the pumpkin pie – equivalent of up to $100bn of Federal support for each of the GSEs. Yum.
And US taxpayers get stuffed stuffing. Duh.
Total Thanksgiving bailout cost — something like $8,500bn, including the Fed’s various liquidity programmes and the $700bn Tarp, for which we could find no edible representative. Quantitative easing and ‘Tarp’ probably doesn’t translate very well into food anyway.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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