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Igel

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5. How much do you think he got?

Reply to GusFring (Original post)

Wed Mar 25, 2020, 08:10 AM

Mar 2020

There was $800 billion in one package, TARP was (originally) at $700 billion, the Fed pitched in $2.1 trillion.

For $3.6 trillion.

And that wasn't as bad as this.

I still suspect a larger stimulus in early 2008 might have prevented much of the problem, but people were stingy.

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Do you remember when Barack Obama got a $6trillion stimulus? [View all] GusFring Mar 2020 OP

I've been saying for a couple of years, what if money was no object under Obama? We'd brewens Mar 2020 #1

rump gets his stimulus Cirque du So-What Mar 2020 #2

I thought the rule that the RepubliCons followed was: MyOwnPeace Mar 2020 #3

i remember well onethatcares Mar 2020 #4

How much do you think he got? Igel Mar 2020 #5

No, but I don't remember him facing something like this Amishman Mar 2020 #6