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Like pigs at the trough, banks are lining up for the billions of dollars made available to them under the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Originally conceived as a mechanism to purchase toxic mortgage assets, bailout czar Henry Paulson announced last week he's offic...
15:30 *PAULSON SAYS MARKET TURMOIL WON'T ABATE UNTIL HOUSING REBOUNDS In a similar vein, we are seeing increasing interest in support consumer access to credit. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson today announced that TARP is no longer about troubled assets:
Thu, Nov 13 | from Economist's View