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$5 trillion. That’s how much it has cost so far to bailout out corporate America from its own stupidity, greed and corruption (yes, Fannie and Freddie, that means you). Or to put it another way, the US government in its eternal wisdom has now put the American taxpayer on the hook for $5,000,000,000,000.

- Here’s the breakdown, from CreditSights, a research firm in New York and London, as reported in Forbes magazine.

The Fed

$1 trillion in overnight or short-term loans since March to primary dealers through its emergency discount window* $1.8 trillion in loans to primary dealers through the Fed’s term auction facility since in January* $29 billion in Bear Stearns debt $60 billion of credit available to American International Group $22.5 billion to set up a special purpose vehicle to manage some of AIG’s residential mortgage-backed securities $30 billion of a second fund to hold $70 ...