ritholtz.com - 1/13/2009
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With the government now debating the release of the second half of the TARP funds, perhaps now is as good a time as any to look at how successfully spent the first $350 Billion dollars were.
The evidence is not very favorable.
What I can say without reservation is that the TARP spending ...
online.wsj.com - 1/9/2009
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online.wsj.com —
MICHAEL R. CRITTENDEN WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Treasury
has failed to reveal its strategy for stabilizing the...
financial system, not answered questions asked by a government watchdog, and has done nothing to help struggling homeowners, a report being ...
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Panel Steps Up Criticism of Treasury Over TARP
cboblog.cbo.gov - 1/16/2009
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cboblog.cbo.gov —
CBO is required by law to report semiannually
on OMB’s assessment of expenditures under the Troubled Assets...
Relief Program (TARP). Today, CBO released the first of these reports . (For more on the TARP program, this blog post from October ...
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Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) Report
house.gov - 1/10/2009
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house.gov —
Washington, DC - House Financial Services Committee Chairman
Barney Frank (D-MA) today introduced H.R. 384, the TARP...
Reform and Accountability Act to amend the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) provisions of the Emergency Economic Stabilization ...
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House Financial Services Committee
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Terrible Lessons
Bear Mountain Bull —
The Big Picture lays out “The Terrible Lessons of TARP” : Let’s take a quick look at some of the shortcomings and misfires the TARP has yielded: 1. No Strategic Plan : What was the original purpose of the TARP? Its hard to say, other than it was of the greatest importance it be passed with minimum debate and even less information. Without stated objectives, its difficult to evaluate whether it is achieving those goals. 2. Methods and Tactics : By what method was the TARP to be implemented? Buy distressed assets? Recapitalize the banks? Rescue foreclosed homeowners? ...
Tuesday links: TARP turnaround
Abnormal Returns —
... The terms of the TARP have been a moving target. (Big Picture, Baseline Scenario)
Maybe we are just getting back to the original intent of the TARP. (Clusterstock)
Just how would one profit from U.S. government credit default swaps? (Market Movers)
David Swensen of the Yale endowment is “sticking to the same investment approach that he’s used in the past.” ( ...
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nakedcapitalism.com 1/26/2009 — Before we get to the particulars of tonight's Wall Street Journal story, we need to step back a second. Just like the war in Iraq, which had a ton of justifications served up by the Bush Administration, none of which added up (and the most obvious ...
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