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 ...

The first real potential rift between Congress and the soon-to-be Obama administration and is over the issue that tore apart Republicans last fall -- the troubled-assets relief program (TARP), AKA the ...

Today, the Treasury Department announced the sale of its shares in Ally Financial (formerly the finance arm of General Motors) for $19.6 billion. This is the last vestige of the auto industry bailout ...

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 ...

Learn how to stay dry while bushcraft camping under a tree. Tips on tarp setup, shelter building, and surviving rainy ...

The Obama administration has been crowing lately about the repayments flowing in to the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and Thursday’s plan to end the bailout of American International Group was touted ...

The Obama administration this week will mark the second anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the ensuing Wall Street meltdown with an ironic bit of bipartisanship: letters of thanks to ...

Today the Senate Banking Committee will explore the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). Almost 30 months after its birth, TARP is far from dead. More than 550 banks, AIG, GM, Chrysler and others ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A growing number of U.S. banks are finding that participating in the $700 billion government program designed to spur lending is more trouble than it is worth. In the last week, ...