Taxpayers Still Owed More Than $200 Billion From Bailouts

But far bigger than any bank bailout were the billions given to mortgage finance firms Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, whose bailouts took place outside of TARP.

Together they received $187.5 billion. Treasury has received $45.7 billion in dividends from the firms, and made an estimated $25 billion profit on the sale of mortgage-backed securities during the last year. It is also due to receive all future profits from the two firms. But even with that, the losses from bailing out those firms could dwarf what was lost on the rest of the finance sector.''