Troubled Asset Relief Program

There was a great chart in Sunday’s NYT:

The government is pulling a sheet over TARP, the Troubled Asset Relief Program created during the panic of 2008 to bail out the nation’s financial institutions. With the program’s expiration on Sunday, we can expect to hear lots of claims from the folks at the Treasury that it was a great success.

Such assertions would be no surprise from a political class justifiably concerned about possible taxpayer unhappiness, the continuing economic turmoil and the midterm elections. But if we have learned anything during this crisis, it is that the proclamations emanating from the Washington spin machine must be taken with an extra-hefty grain of salt.

TARP Money

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Source:
Count on Sequels to TARP
GRETCHEN MORGENSON
NYT, October 2, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/03/business/economy/03gret.html

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