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In Kenneth Chenault
…receive emergency financing through the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP)—a program created under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 that allowed the Treasury secretary to purchase troubled assets from banks in order to restore stability and liquidity to U.S. credit markets.
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In Chrysler: From Daimler to Stellantis
…in government loans from the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), a \$700 billion fund approved by Congress to aid the financial industry in the wake of the subprime mortgage crisis. The loans would allow the auto companies to continue operating through March 2009, when they were required to either demonstrate…
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In United States: The George W. Bush administration
…in, financial institutions through the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which allocated \$700 billion to the recovery effort.
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In Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008
…treasury secretary to establish a Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to protect the ability of consumers and businesses to secure credit. The Treasury Department’s purchases of illiquid assets under the TARP would make it easier for banks to extend credit and would thereby increase confidence in the credit markets. The…
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In financial crisis of 2007–08: Key events of the crisis
… (EESA), which would establish a Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), under which the Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Paulson, would be authorized to purchase from U.S. banks up to \$700 billion in MBSs and other “troubled assets.” After the legislation was initially rejected by the House of Representatives, a majority…
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In General Motors: TARP, Chapter 11, and recovery
…in government loans from the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), a \$700 billion fund approved by Congress to aid the financial industry following the subprime mortgage crisis. The loans would allow the auto companies to continue operating through March 2009, by which time the plan required them to demonstrate “financial…
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In Elizabeth Warren
…Congressional Oversight Panel for the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), the body authorized under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act to rescue foundering American financial institutions in 2008, that Warren became a national figure. She then championed the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which was established under the 2010…
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In United States: Occupy Wall Street, withdrawal from Iraq, and slow economic recovery
…loans provided by the government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program. Wages, however, remained largely stagnant, and the housing market, while showing some signs of recovery, was still tottering, with foreclosures widespread and in some places seemingly ubiquitous. Unemployment, which, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, had reached 10 percent in…
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In Barack Obama: Budget battles
…to the successes of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (authorized under the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act), which had come to the rescue of foundering American financial institutions.
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