bank bailout

TARP Watchdog Says Foreclosure Plan Is Failing

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Fri, 02/18/2011 - 4:14am

U.S. foreclosures matched their highest level on record at the end of 2010. That's frustrating to one of the nation's financial watchdogs.

Neil Barofsky is the special inspector general for TARP, which is the massive federal bank bailout program.

He says the administration's program to prevent foreclosures is broken.



 

$700 Billion Bank Bailout Program Expires

NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Mon, 10/04/2010 - 2:00am

The government's TARP program for troubled financial institutions has expired. Steve Inskeep speaks to Deborah Solomon, a staff writer at The Wall Street Journal, about TARP and the many misconceptions surrounding the program.

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