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Jon Stewart: America’s next TARP model

By Chris Clair

A Bloomberg report recently revealed that the U.S. government loaned banks $7.7 trillion in secret bailout funds at no interest and then borrowed the money back at interest.

“Basically the government was lending banks money at no interest, and then borrowing it back at interest. Our government is the world’s dumbest loan shark,” Stewart says.

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