The Fed earns money on the Treasuries it owns. This pays for its expenses and the excess goes to the Treasury. It really doesn’t ‘dish out truckloads of cash’, it manages the ratio of currency available to the banking system by buying and selling Treasuries. The bailouts it has arranged involve getting private sector firms to take over failing companies.
Well, I noticed more “new” twentys in the cash flowing around me lately.
I read at least one report that indicated that one method of bailout would be for the Fed to buy shares of the company...