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’Behind those Bloomberg banks-profit-from-Fed figures
Bloomberg fought and won a lengthy case against the Federal Reserve to obtain the details of the various US bailout programmes. That was back in the summer. FT Alphaville salutes them for it, as have many others.
Your guide to the Fed’s $3.3 trillion data dump
Cast your minds back to 2007, 2008 and 2009 — and think hard.
You’ll need to. The Federal Reserve has just released the mother-of-all data dumps — showing who received payouts from its circa $3,000bn bailout programmes,
The Fed’s hedge asset laundry
As financial markets of all flavours convulsed on Thursday, a scary suggestion was doing the rounds – namely that the Fed’s emergency action this week could have the (presumably) unintended consequence of encouraging wholesale liquidations across the hedge fund industry.