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TARP Payback Scorecard

Posted: May 10, 2013 at 11:35 am

Following the financial crisis of 2008, the U.S. Treasury was authorized to commit up to $700 billion to a Troubled Asset Relief Program -- TARP -- in an effort to ...
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U.S. Treasury Initiates Sale of Remaining GM Stock

Posted: January 18, 2013 at 2:05 pm

When the U.S. Treasury and General Motors Co. (NYSE: GM) announced that GM had repurchased 200 million shares of Treasury-owned stock, the Treasury said it would sell the remaining 300 ...
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Treasury Sale of AIG Shares Hammers Share Price (AIG)

Posted: May 7, 2012 at 10:22 am

At one time US taxpayers owned more than 90% of American International Group Inc. (NYSE: AIG). Today taxpayers own about 63% of the insurance giant, following AIG’s purchase of about ...
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Plenty of TARP Recipients Still Delinquent

Posted: March 22, 2012 at 10:02 am

The federal government’s $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) has recovered all but about $11 billion in the funds it distributed to US financial institutions in 2008 and 2009. ...
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Why America’s Financial Future Is Far Better Than Europe’s

Posted: December 28, 2011 at 6:27 am

A number of economists believe the U.S. debt burden, budget problems, recession and lack of growth will soon be the same as those now facing many EU nations. This would ...
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Media Digest (1/26/2011) Reuters, WSJ, NYT, FT, Bloomberg

Posted: January 26, 2011 at 4:09 am

Obama called for a spending freeze for some government discretionary spending. (Reuters) The Federal Reserve will probably stick to it plans to buy bonds and noted economic improvement. (Reuters) Toyota ...
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