Treasury’s financial reporting for TARP questioned

By Laurel Adams

GAO criticizes Treasury for lapses in its oversight of TARP accounts

Newsmaker interview: Bailout watchdog warns of "doomsday cycle"

By Peter H. Stone

Neil Barofsky, the TARP special inspector general, tells the Center in an interview that the government has sown the seeds for a future fina

TARP helped stabilize financial institutions, but future success questioned

By Laurel Adams

The government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program, established to stabilize weak financial institutions, faces challenges in getting repayments
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Bailout watchdog probes suspected TARP fraud at 64 banks

The government watchdog charged with overseeing the $700 billion bank bailout fund is claiming broad success in cracking down on individual

Treasury Dept. scolded for rejecting anti-fraud measures in bank capital program

By David Heath and Julie Vorman

A senior House Republican scolded the Treasury Department on Wednesday for rejecting recommendations from a government watchdog to prevent f

Daily financial reform roundup

By Julie Vorman

Daily news highlights for consumers following the U.S. financial reform law....
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Bank regulators could use 'war games' as crisis prevention training

By Julie Vorman

Global bank regulators should borrow a page from the Pentagon’s playbook and add financial “war games” to their arsenal of tools aimed at pr

August 6, 2010

By Julie Vorman

TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT: What lessons did the U.S. government learn from its unprecedented 2008-09 intervention in the financial markets?...

Shaky start for Troubled Asset Relief Program

By The Center for Public Integrity

Instead of buying up troubled assets, money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program poured into banks to little avail