Sentences with phrase «largest taxpayer bailout»

Citigroup, however, the bank that spectacularly blew itself up with toxic derivatives and subprime debt in 2008, became a 99 - cent stock during the crisis, and received the largest taxpayer bailout in U.S. financial history despite being insolvent at the time, today holds more derivatives than 4,701 other banks combined which are backstopped by the taxpayer.

Citigroup received the largest taxpayer bailout in the history of finance from 2008 through 2010: $ 45 billion in Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) funds; over $ 300 billion in asset guarantees; and more than $ 2 trillion in low cost loans.

If all of this wasn't concerning enough, the very type of derivatives that blew up the giant insurer AIG in 2008 (credit derivatives) are making a big comeback at Citigroup, the recipient of the largest taxpayer bailout of a bank in U.S. history during the 2008 crash.

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Just nine years after the repeals, Citigroup was on taxpayer life support, receiving the largest banking bailout in U.S. history.

This is good because the bailout of Fannie and Freddie (which is actually a bailout of large banks) has cost U.S. taxpayers $ 145 billion so far.