Quote from RussellDaytrade:
Well thats fine, and dandy, as far as it goes, and its accurate enough. However, whats the matter with spreading the access to virtually free money to include others than Wall St banks. Especially seeing that most of the ills are directly a result of their practices.
If evaluated on a scale of the value they have actually created, relative to the losses they have also created, the sad facts are that Wall St banks are in the red, across their entire earnings histories, save GS.
Not exactly a shining example of who to shower with rewards of unlimited access to cheap fuel, regardless of whether or not, or how dire they need it.
I say, let anyone who wishes to, gain the same access to the window, on a par with IB's...if IB's get access to 50B, allow 50B to anyone else that wants it, and so on.
I think its fair to say that anyone outside of IB's can do just as good a job of it, and likely better, for the money. Sure as hell can't do any worse.
What they are doing now amounts to pardoning criminals before they are even indicted, and giving them vast amounts of the ammo that fueled the crimes in the first place.
Doesn't exactly make perfect sense. Kinda like giving arsonists free gas cards.