from the quasi-governmental Fed and then lent the money back to the government by buying government bonds at higher rates?

Thus locking in profits so that blithering idiots like CNN's Erin Burnett could then claim that the banks have paid the country back? Free stuff like that?

You're locked in your own little drone world raillery. Now wonder you fell for that "Wag The Dog" stuff.

Shazam

(BTW check out the rates on a 10 or 30 year Treasury)