All Stories published by Keith Hennessey on April 29, 2009

Intro to TARP — TARP I: Buying bad assets

Yesterday we created a simple example of Large Bank, which made some bad loans and now has two problems:

  1. It doesn’t have enough capital.
  2. It has downside risk on its balance sheet due to the uncertain value…
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