Topic: Troubled Asset Relief Program

That Bank Bailout Was Way Bigger Than Anyone Thought

Reuters

Remember the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program with which the federal government came to the rescue of faltering banks in 2008? Well, according to a Bloomberg report, that was just a fraction of the financial help the Federal Reserve Bank wound up doling out to troubled lenders.

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