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Editorial Roundup: Excerpts From Recent Editorials

We, in fact, supported spending that contributed to this problem the Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP as a necessity to help avoid a more serious ... and more »
Wed, Dec 23 | from google.com

Reader Views on TARP

There aren't any unused Troubled Assets Relief Program funds. One of two situations likely exists. First, TARP had spending authorization up to a certain ...
Wed, Dec 23 | from The Tennessean

House prepares bills on debt ceiling, jobs

Los Angeles Times Democrats want to fund a portion of their jobs package with unspent money from the $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program. The Obama administration is ... Action on job proposals may wait till next yearWashington Post all 568 news articles »
Fri, Dec 11 | from Washington Post

Democrats Push New Housing Bail-Out Agenda

ABC News These funds would be taken out from the 'Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) fund. House Financial Services Committee Chairman, Barney Frank (D-Mass. ... Citigroup and the US at odds over aid paymentHULIQ Quiet as it's kept, the bank bail-out workedAtlanta Journal Constitution
Tue, Dec 8 | from Benzinga

Quiet as it's kept, the bank bail-out worked

The Money Times But the bail-out of financial institutions — officially known as the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) — was absolutely necessary to avert a second ... Obama preparing new push to add jobs, tackle deficitWashington Post
Tue, Dec 8 | from blogs.ajc.com

Bank of America Ready to Pay Back $45 Billion in Bailout Money - Politics Daily

Bank of America Ready to Pay Back $45 Billion in Bailout Money Bank of America announced Wednesday that it will pay back the $45 billion it received from the Troubled Assets Relief Program, or TARP. ... Bank of America repaying government $45BUPI.com Bank of America to repay bail-outBBC News
Thu, Dec 3 | from Politics Daily

Taps for TARP?

WHEN CONGRESS created the Troubled Assets Relief Program just over a year ago, no one could be quite sure whether the $700 billion fund, gigantic as it was, ...
Sat, Nov 28 | from Washington Post

Lend Me Your Ear (and Some Money): Small Business Chats Up the Feds

Those other, more concrete, measures — opening up the Troubled Assets Relief Program to smaller banks and raising limits on loans backed by the Small ... and more »
Tue, Nov 17 | from New York Times

Steven Weber: TARP, Octuplets and the Triumph of the Mediocre

American culture, having had its higher ambitions whittled down most notably during the Bush years, perpetuates messages which teach us that it's okay, indeed preferable, to be downright mediocre. (Caution: Untethered Metaphor Alert. The next paragraphs contain several labored, un...
Thu, Feb 12 | from Huffington Post

Wall Street Breakfast: Must-Know News

Obama open to bigger rescue. In a key press conference yesterday, and his first since taking office, Obama signaled he would be open to expanding the $700B financial rescue program if need be, acknowledging the belief among many economists that the remaining $350B of TARP funds will not b...
Tue, Feb 10 | from seekingalpha.com

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart: Lending is Contracting -- As Well It Should

Those 13 banks have collected the lion's share of the roughly $200 billion the government has doled out since TARP was launched last October to stabilize financial institutions. Banks reporting declines in outstanding loans range from giants Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc., eac...
Mon, Jan 26 | from Huffington Post

Hale "Bonddad" Stewart: Why TARP Was -- And Is -- Still Necessary

Regardless of what has been written about the TARP program, it has been a success for one simple reason: the US financial system has not collapsed. Much has been written about the Troubled Asset Relief Program or TARP. Little to none of it has been good. Some of this criticism is warranted but s...
Mon, Jan 19 | from Huffington Post

Podcast: "Workers Laid Off, Executives Paid Off, Bernard Madoff"

The $700-billion financial bailout package, TARP (Troubled Assets Relief Program), was supposed to mandate the elimination of exorbitant executive compensation and “golden parachutes.” As U.S. taxpayers pony up their hard-earned dollars, highflying executives and corporate boar...
Wed, Dec 17 | from i2.democracynow.org

Podcast: Amy Goodman's New Column, "Workers Laid Off, Executives Paid Off, Bernard Madoff"

Rich Lowry: Paulson turns on a dime

When Lehman Bros. went down in September, the financial system faced a crisis. Paulson needed the flexibility to adjust to dire and unpredictable circumstances, but in retrospect his conduct verges on bad faith. His $700 billion program is called the Troubled Assets Relief Program for a r...
Tue, Dec 16 | from Sacramento Bee

Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008

Section 302. Special Rules for Tax Treatment of Executive Compensation of Employers Participating in the Troubled Assets Relief Program. Applies limits on executive compensation and golden parachutes for certain executives of employers who participate in the auction program.
Tue, Oct 7 | from activerain.com

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