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The Motley Fool February 19, 2009 Christopher Barker	$8.6 Trillion Was a Drop in the Bucket Keeping a tally of total potential outlays puts the scale of the crisis in context.
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U.S. Banker February 2009 Michael Sisk	Looking Under the TARP Government oversight panels finally get up and running and take a closer look at the $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program -- and aren't happy with what they see.
BusinessWeek October 28, 2010 Robert Schmidt	Living Nicely Off the Crumbs of TARP Private companies also benefited from the financial bailout.
HBS Working Knowledge June 22, 2009 Roger Thompson	"Too Big To Fail": Reining In Large Financial Firms The federal government should slap tough new regulations on all firms that pose "systemic risk" - the risk that a failure of one institution could wreak havoc across the entire financial system.
U.S. Banker August 2009 Joseph Rosta	Piling Up on the Fed Republicans and Democrats in Congress agree that the Federal Reserve Board isn't doing much right.
BusinessWeek August 26, 2010 James Sterngold	Let a Thousand Regulators Bloom As agencies begin rewiring Wall Street, job openings abound.
Registered Rep. April 13, 2009 Halah Touryalai	Treasury Extend TARP to Life Insurers--If They Qualify The Treasury made an announcement last Wednesday that sent life insurance stocks soaring the following day.
U.S. Banker July 2009 Andrew Dubinsky	Electronic Lending Could Help Avert Another Crisis If regulators had the tools in place to effectively view complex debt instruments and the links between the financial institutions that securitize, hold, and insure them this crisis may not have happened.
The Motley Fool July 22, 2010 Matt Koppenheffer	The Government Superheroes Preventing the Next Crash Can the Financial Stability Oversight Council save our financial system from evildoers?
BusinessWeek June 25, 2009 Theo Francis & Mark Scott	European Regulators Target U.S. Firms New regulatory efforts by European policymakers may put American banks, insurers, and money managers at a competitive disadvantage.
The Motley Fool June 14, 2010 Russ Krull	The Government: Worst Investor Ever? Here's a closer look at the U.S. Treasury's recent investments.
Finance & Development September 2009 Randall Dodd	Overhauling the System The United States is proposing the most radical reform of financial regulation since the New Deal.
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CFO October 1, 2010 Randy Myers	The Calm Before Reform With sweeping new legislation on the horizon, companies (and their banks) try to gauge the impact.
HBS Working Knowledge April 23, 2008 Dwight Crane	The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations U.S. Treasury recommendations for strengthening the regulation of the financial system are a good start but fall short, says Harvard Business School professor emeritus Dwight B. Crane.
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BusinessWeek September 16, 2010 Robert Schmidt & Hans Nichols	Appointing a Firebrand Without a Senate Fight Rather than nominate Elizabeth Warren to head the newly created Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the White House plans to install her at the Treasury Dept., with the interim assignment of overseeing the establishment of the agency. Obama aides hope this will avoid a confirmation battle with Senate Republicans.
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Bank Systems & Technology November 11, 2008 Orla O'Sullivan	TARP May Need Tech Vendors: Kashkari Intimates A technology system may automatically decide which of thousands of banks applying for direct government funding from the bailout fund get it.
BusinessWeek October 7, 2010 Ian Katz	A New Council Looks for Risky Business A new council of regulators is scrutinizing financial firms to find those that should be subject to Fed oversight because they are high-risk.
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Bank Director 1st Quarter 2011 Jack Milligan	In the Eye of the Storm Former Comptroller of the Currency John C. Dugan speaks candidly about the financial crisis of 2008, the landmark Dodd-Frank Act and the need for minimum loan underwriting standards for the banking industry.
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On Wall Street March 1, 2010	Five Questions with Timothy Ryan Jr. Ryan held senior positions in the industry, from the vice chairman level at JPMorgan to Director of the Office of Thrift Supervision, where he helped in the S&L cleanup. He talks about today's regulatory needs.
U.S. Banker January 2009 Michael Sisk	Lessons From the S&L Bailout It's inevitable that today's financial crisis gets compared to the nation's savings and loan bailout, which cost taxpayers about $250 billion in today's dollars. What lessons did we learn from it?
The Motley Fool June 19, 2009 Morgan Housel	Where Did All the Bailout Money Go? Now that several banks have repaid taxpayers about $70 billion of the $700 billion bank bailout know as TARP, a common question is: "Great, now where's the other $630 billion?" The answer isn't as clear-cut as many may assume.
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The Motley Fool December 3, 2008 Alex Dumortier	GAO to Paulson: Get Your TARP in Order The Government Accountability Office chides the Treasury Department for failing to address a number of key issues with respect to the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
National Real Estate Investor May 1, 2008 Ben Johnson	Regulators Turn Up Heat On Local Banks Community and mid-size banks, which comprise the bulk of all commercial real estate lending in this country, are once again under the watchful eye of regulators.
U.S. Banker February 2010 Rob Garver	What Now? If Washington really wants to get credit flowing to small businesses, it could modify TARP, relax capital requirements and rethink its stance on industrial loan companies. Or it could do nothing at all.
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BusinessWeek November 11, 2010 Robert Schmidt	Neil Barofsky: The Bailout Cop the White House Loathes Insisting that TARP is nowhere near over, the Treasury's Special Inspector General, is in open warfare with the Administration.