A common tarp might not immediately spring to mind as a versatile gardening tool, but its usefulness during the winter months may be surprising. This durable, waterproof material proves incredibly ...
Troy Segal is an editor and writer. She has 20+ years of experience covering personal finance, wealth management, and business news. The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) was an initiative created ...
A few Sundays ago, the Troubled Asset Relief Program quietly expired. But it certainly lives on as an issue in next month's elections. Politicians who voted for the bank bailout bill have been running ...
On Nov. 12, 2008, Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson announced a dramatic shift in the strategy to deal with the rolling financial crisis. Rather than use the $700 billion TARP funds to buy troubled ...
When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters. At Vox, our mission is to help you make sense of the world — and that work has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our own. We ...
Each day we were hearing about another large bank that was drowning in its toxic assets. These were often assets that were mortgage backed and were losing a substantial amount of value at an ...
The $700 billion "Troubled Asset Relief Program" (TARP) was enacted in Washington three years ago this week, and while most economists, policymakers and journalists still believe it made things better ...