What Taxpayers Got for $45 Billion

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Citigroup

econompicdata.blogspot.com - 2/19/2009

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By the fourth quarter of 2008, only Citigroup's Global Wealth Management Group was making any money (though those $29mm in earnings are too small to even see in the chart below). Source: Citi via Ritholtz

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