Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Friday, December 3, 2010

BMW Headquarters, Munich, Germany - Image via Wikipedia
By Chris Reiter – Dec 2, 2010
Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, the world’s largest maker of luxury cars, secured funds from the U.S. Federal Reserve during the financial crisis to boost liquidity as other sources dried up.
BMW’s largest transaction under the Fed’s Commercial Paper Funding Facility was for $3.62 billion on Jan. 30, 2009, according to data released yesterday. BMW made “intermittent” use of the Fed program for refinancing at a time when other forms of credit were frozen, Mathias Schmidt, a spokesman for the Munich-based automaker, said today.
“We tapped into this program in 2008 and 2009 during the financial crisis …Continue…
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Posted by Warm Southern Breeze on Friday, June 25, 2010
GOMOD – Gulf Of Mexico Oil Disaster
UPDATE: …Continue for some devastating figures…
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