While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Goldman Sachs commercial bank buys back “toxic” assets that it had sold to the department of the treasury literally for “dimes on the dollar”: 10,000,000,000 “dollars” worth of mortgage back securities are bought back by Goldman for 1,100,000,000 “dollars” a 1,125% return on their investment.  The department of the treasury releases a statement claiming, “Taxpayers have gotten a good return on their investment.  The process we designed on valuation worked to protect taxpayers.”

       Question: How can a 8,900,000,000 “dollar” loss be a “good return?”

       [added 12/18/2021] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.