Comments on: Bank Bailout vs. Chinese Solar Investments vs. US Solar Investments vs. Solyndra Investment (Graphs)

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:42:00 +0000

the government has clearly made a profit off of these investments, but doing what you suggest might have won it more political points (harder to spin).

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:41:00 +0000

Thanks! Yeah, I got a bit tired of scrolling after inserting images, writing, editing, sharing….

By: JMin2020

JMin2020 — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:32:00 +0000

Thanks for putting things into perspective once again Zach. I had to scroll down quite a ways to find anything other than the Bank Bail Out figures. Maybe some politicos just have the wrong priorities when it comes to who and what needs some urgent address; and what constitutes a real economic problem.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:13:00 +0000

The government got the building, which can be sold.

The government also got income and payroll taxes from the people employed. It got sales taxes and more income taxes from the businesses where the funds were spent and from the stores where employees spent their paychecks.
A nice percentage of the money spent came right back in the form of taxes as that money sloshed around in the economy.

The government also got some people off the unemployment rolls for a while which saved money.

If you want to get all pissy about the losses, please do an accurate accounting….

By: dynamo.joe

dynamo.joe — Wed, 26 Sep 2012 23:52:00 +0000

I wish instead of loan guarantees the gov’t had given purchase orders. Then even in the worst case scenario, the gov’t is saying

“well the company went under, but we got $500M in PV installed at gov’t facilities. Those installations are expected to pay for themselves in 7-10 yrs and produce an additional $1.5B before end of life.”