While most people know about Congress' $700 billion TARP program, the Fed's secret emergency loans to banks during the financial crisis remains shrouded in mystery..Â
A new Bloomberg Markets report shines more light on this lending.
After adding up all the guarantees and loans, the Fed committed $7.77 trillion to rescuing the financial system as of March 2009, the report said.Â
Notably, while the banks were taking these huge loans, they maintained that they were fine
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