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| FED Now Offering $200B To Bail Out Hedge Funds |
| 2008-12-21 |
| Hedge funds will be allowed to borrow from the Federal Reserve for the first time under a landmark $200bn programme intended to support consumer credit. The Fed said on Friday it would offer low-cost three-year funding to any US company investing in securitised consumer loans under the Term Asset-backed Securities Loan Facility (TALF). This includes hedge funds, which have never been able to borrow from the US central bank before, although the Fed may not permit hedge funds to use offshore vehicles to conduct the transactions. But if they can't use their usual offshore banks, how can they evade paying taxes on it? How unfair! |
| Posted by:Anonymoose |