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U.S. Banks Refuse to Detail How They’re Spending Federal Bailout Money
After receiving hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded federal bailout money, the biggest U.S. banks say they can’t track how that money is being spent.
Some of the banks are outright refusing to discuss the matter, a new study has found.
"We have not disclosed that to the public. We’re declining to," Thomas Kelly, a spokesman for JP Morgan Chase & Co. (JPM) told The Associated Press, which surveyed 21 banks that received at least $1 billion in federal bailout money, and asked how that capital was being used. JP Morgan received a $25 billion infusion as part of the U.S. Treasury…
6Jan2009 | Money Morning | 0 comments | Continued
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