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How to Lose 55 Percent: Invest in TARP
dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com - 2/24/2009
How to Lose 55 Percent: Invest in TARP
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TARP investments are certainly "troubled." And Washington, it turns out, isn't the best short-term investor. The government's investment in the nation's ailing banks, made through the newly coined Troubled Asset Relief Program, TARP, have taken a huge hit since the program started making capital ...
opencongress.org - 2/22/2009
Text of H.R.1068 as Introduced in House Let Wall Street Pay for Wall Street’s Bailout Act of 2009
— opencongress.org — (1) The Bush Administration allocated the first $350 billion of TARP funds in a manner that has... outraged the Nation by failing to provide the most basic oversight of the funds. Comments Close Comments Permalink (2) Congress has declined to block the ... (more) Text of H.R.1068 as Introduced in House Let Wall Street ...

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The TARP Visualized
calculatedriskblog.com - 2/20/2009
The TARP Visualized
— calculatedriskblog.com — This is making the rounds. Enjoy... (hat tip Nick in Kyoto, original source unknown) Click on photos... for larger image in new window. TARP (more) The TARP Visualized

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economicprincipals.com - 2/23/2009
Late Starter
— economicprincipals.com — How’s the US banking crisis going to end? Nouriel Roubini, of New York University, has taken the... lead in urging the Swedish solution, namely government receivership : take ’em over, clean ’em up and sell ’em back to the private sector, preferably ... (more) Late Starter

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How to Lose 55% - Invest in TARP
Club for Growth — From the NYT's Andrew Ross Sorkin: TARP investments are certainly “troubled.” And Washington, it turns out, isn’t the best short-term investor. The government’s investments in the nation’s ailing banks, made through the newly coined Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, have taken a huge hit since the program started making capital injections last October. Thanks to last week’s stock market sell-off, the government is now sitting on a paper loss of at least 55 percent, or $107.7 billion, on the $195.5 billion invested under the ...

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Buying assets, recapitalising banks, and getting incentives right
VoxEU.org 2/26/2009 — Salvatore Rossi , 25 February 2009 There are two schools of thought on how to get credit flowing again. One suggests buying the toxic assets, the other says to recapitalise banks. This column says that both approaches are necessary, though the right ...
A Letter From A TARP Recipient To The Government — Stock Market Prognosticator
Banks have received billions of dollars from the government as part of the Capital Purchase Program (CPP) of the Troubled Asset Relief Plan (TARP) set up by the Bush Administration. Here is the letter they would love to send to Congress. Dear Congress, Thank you very much for the capital last ...
Proposed Trader Tax - House Bill 1068 — Online Stock Trading | Stock Trading Online
Active traders should be aware of a current “trader tax” being referred to committee for funding the TARP - Troubled Asset Relief Program. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h111-1068 and the full text: http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-1068 “(1) ...