2013-05-13ritholtz.com

``These six banks -- Bank of America Corp. (BAC), Citigroup Inc. (C), Goldman Sachs Group Inc., (GS) JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Morgan Stanley (MS) and Wells Fargo & Co (WFC). -- have also benefited from tax breaks and Federal Reserve largesse since the end of 2008 in the form of additional income from the central bank's mortgage-bond purchases and the interest it pays for bank deposits.

All told, the financial advantages for the six biggest banks since the start of 2009 amounted to at least $102 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.''



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