TARP COP: Troubled Assets Still Lurking
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The economic green shoots are sprouting, the market has rebounded and even the unemployment figure seems to be holding steady—and yet, the ghosts of economic crisis past are still lurking in our midst. A new report by the Congressional Oversight Panel, the independent Congressional committee tasked with monitoring TARP, economic regulation and the overall recovery, says that banks’ bad assets are still rotting away on the books. Will the toxic remnants of this crisis haunt the American economy for the foreseeable future?
Guests:
Elizabeth Warren, chair of the Congressional Oversight Panel; professor of law at Harvard University
- Patt Morrison for August 12, 2009
- TARP COP: Troubled Assets Still Lurking
- Caffeinated Google
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- If you Offer Free Healthcare Services, They Will Come
- Obama's Problem with Seniors
- “What Are you Doing,” Soon to be “Where are You?”
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Comedy Congress Live
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
7:30 p.m.
- 9 p.m.
The comedic material emanating from Washington D.C., and state capitols across the country, is enough to make any sitcom writer jealous, even if most of that comedy is unintentional. Our motto on Comedy Congress is that just when politics makes you want to cry, it’s usually best to laugh.
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