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Keith Hennessey
Keith Hennessey
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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…