Comment by JackYoustra 6 months ago Name one literal no-strings-attached blank cheque to a large company in the last 20 years 7 comments JackYoustra Reply spacebanana7 6 months ago Perhaps not strictly “no-strings-attached” but many of the 2008 bailouts were functionally mechanisms to avoid nationalisation. meetingthrower 6 months ago Lol the jail free bailouts of the banks in 2008? Goldman got billions from the bailout of AIG, management got millions and millions in bonuses.... ChadNauseam 6 months ago Those bailouts were generally loans that were paid back. Pretty far from a "no strings attached blank cheque". WalterBright 6 months ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndrahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act sigwinch 6 months ago Any Federal corporate tax relief at all. They put the pedal down on accelerated depreciation after 2008, though it existed over 20 years ago.Any swapping of Federal Reserve bonds for corporate bonds, say during the pandemic. notherhack 6 months ago Any cost-plus defense or aerospace contract.
spacebanana7 6 months ago Perhaps not strictly “no-strings-attached” but many of the 2008 bailouts were functionally mechanisms to avoid nationalisation.
meetingthrower 6 months ago Lol the jail free bailouts of the banks in 2008? Goldman got billions from the bailout of AIG, management got millions and millions in bonuses.... ChadNauseam 6 months ago Those bailouts were generally loans that were paid back. Pretty far from a "no strings attached blank cheque".
ChadNauseam 6 months ago Those bailouts were generally loans that were paid back. Pretty far from a "no strings attached blank cheque".
WalterBright 6 months ago https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndrahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act
sigwinch 6 months ago Any Federal corporate tax relief at all. They put the pedal down on accelerated depreciation after 2008, though it existed over 20 years ago.Any swapping of Federal Reserve bonds for corporate bonds, say during the pandemic.
Perhaps not strictly “no-strings-attached” but many of the 2008 bailouts were functionally mechanisms to avoid nationalisation.
Lol the jail free bailouts of the banks in 2008? Goldman got billions from the bailout of AIG, management got millions and millions in bonuses....
Those bailouts were generally loans that were paid back. Pretty far from a "no strings attached blank cheque".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solyndra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPS_and_Science_Act
Any Federal corporate tax relief at all. They put the pedal down on accelerated depreciation after 2008, though it existed over 20 years ago.
Any swapping of Federal Reserve bonds for corporate bonds, say during the pandemic.
Any cost-plus defense or aerospace contract.