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How the Treasury is Turning a Profit on TARP

Making Bank on Bailouts

The Treasury is deploying new tactics to make money off TARP's massive bank bailout. Alex Klein reports on how you stand to profit from two lucrative weeks of financial payback.

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Do you feel $19.6 billion richer?

Because that’s how much “profit” the government has turned on the central component of the now-infamous Troubled Asset Relief Program.

Of the $467 billion that was ultimately disbursed through the various TARP programs in 2008 and 2009, about $245 billion went toward buying preferred shares in...

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