Tuesday, August 25, 2009
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Is America Actually Making Money On Its Investments?
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by Jonny Diamond
on Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 2:29 PM
Holy head-turn! Frumpy/smart free-market newsletter
The Economist posted a blog with the following headline yesterday:
"America, savvy investor" (what, too reserved for title case over there?) Here's the real nut:
On top of the return to near normalcy in credit markets, we have the fact that the American government is earning some nice returns on its investments.
What does that mean? Well, the govmint has about $11 billion in paper profits right now on its Citigroup bailout investment. Pretty, pretty good. (Man, if I was the govmint I'd pull out now and buy, like, some jetskis and shit and just live large. But I am not.)
Tags: America is rich, Citigroup, The Economist, Let's all buy third homes
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