<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; ">TALF is short for Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility. But the federal aid they received actually falls under a broader category of bailout initiatives, designed and perfected by Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, called</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; "><b> "giving already stinking rich people gobs of money for no fucking reason at all."</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; ">If you want to learn how the shadow budget works, follow along.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: georgia; font-size: 15px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; ">Read more: </span></span><div style="font-size: 17px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="georgia"><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-real-housewives-of-wall-street-look-whos-cashing-in-on-the-bailout-20110411">http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-real-housewives-of-wall-street-look-whos-cashing-in-on-the-bailout-20110411</a></font></div></body></html>