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The Two-Way
U.S. Will Sell Off Its General Motors Stock
December 19, 2012 The Treasury Department says General Motors will buy back 200 million of its own shares; the remaining 300 million shares will be sold off over the next 12 to 15 months.
Blog Of The Nation
March 28th Show
March 28, 2011 In the first hour of Talk of the Nation, Obama's upcoming speech on Libya, and the opinion page on the violence between Hamas and Israel. In the second hour, the spirit of Japan, and was TARP a success?
It's All Politics
Good TARP News Doesn't Fit; Media Are Flummoxed
October 4, 2010 ANALYSIS: Most of the news media simply didn't know what to do when word came that the Toxic Asset Relief Program wasn't going to cost $700 billion. That didn't fit with the accepted Election Year narrative.
NPR Ombudsman
Planet Money Meltdown
June 1, 2009 TARP watchdog Elizabeth Warren walked out of NPR's New York studio after an interview for a Planet Money podcast, and gave her assistant a puzzled look.
Blog Of The Nation
TARP Wife Confessional
April 21, 2009 A TARP wife tells some, anonymously, and ends up earning my sympathy.