Lucas van Praag and Dane E. Holmes, of Goldman Sachs (commercial bank), announce that GS has “repaid” its Troubled Asset Relief Program loans.

       NOTE: GS did this by selling 100,000,000,000 dollars worth of its toxic (worth less) portfolio to the privately owned Federal Reserve System of (central) Banks.

       [added 12/11/2021] Thanks to G. Edward Griffin for this entry.

Subsequent Events:

6/25/2009                   7/16/2009

References:

EconomicPolicyJournal.com: Totally Busted: The Truth About Goldman’s Bailout by the Fed.htm
www.economicpolicyjournal.com/2010/12/totally-busted-truth-about-goldmans.html

Goldman Sachs | Press Releases – Goldman Sachs Repurchases TARP Preferred Stock.htm
www.goldmansachs.com/media-relations/press-releases/archived/2009/tarp-repurchase.html

Current U.s. National Debt:

$36,167,124,467,492

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