Editors: The TARP Trap
article.nationalreview.com 4/23/2009 — If some banks want to pay back their TARP money, we should let them.

Kudlow on TARP
wizbangblog.com 4/23/2009 — Larry Kudlow's new piece at NRO, a reaction to the TARP Inspector General's report, is a must-read: The IG's report also notes that what started last October as a single-purpose...

TARP: The Looming Debacle
powerlineblog.com 4/28/2009 — On April 21, the Special Inspector General for the Troubled Asset Relief Program Act of 2009--"SIGTARP"--submitted his quarterly report to Congress on his office's activities in relation to the TARP program. The report is a disquieting document that ...

Treasury: Lending Down Among TARP Recipients
washingtonindependent.com 2/18/2009 — new report out of the Treasury Department Tuesday confirmed what many lawmakers, housing advocates, small businesses and individual consumers have known all along: That despite hundreds of billions of dollars flowing from Washington to the finance ...

Assessing Treasury’s Strategy: Six Months of TARP
cop.senate.gov 4/8/2009 — The March oversight report for COP is entitled: The Foreclosure Crisis: Working Towards a Solution. In this report, COP examines the roots of the foreclosure crisis and offers a checklist for evaluating proposals to deal with this problem.

There’s no way out of TARP
sistertoldjah.com 4/6/2009 — (H/T - Lawhawk ) Back at my regular home, both my co-blogger Shoebox and I have been monitoring attempts, some successful, others not, by banks to get out from under the Troubled Assets Relief Program. In today’s Wall Street Journal , Stuart ...

Lowry: Rise of the TARP State
article.nationalreview.com 4/13/2009 — Nothing good can come from the TARP state.

The cost of TARP
scsuscholars.com 4/24/2009 — Bill Cooper pays the ransom for his bank: TCF Financial Corporation announced Wednesday that it had completed the repurchase of its TARP preferred stock from the U.S. Treasury. It paid a redemption price of $361.2 million plus accrued dividends of ...

TARP Cops
meganmcardle.theatlantic.com 4/23/2009 — As head of the TARP Congressional Oversight Panel, Elizabeth Warren has massively extended her mandate, using the office as a sort of forum for broad-ranging commentary on the financial crisis.   Rather than tracking the expenditure of the funds, ...

TARP, the Criminal Enterprise?
corner.nationalreview.com 4/22/2009 — Is the whole TARP plan a criminal enterprise? Sounds farfetched, I suppose. But after reading about Special Inspector General Neil Barofsky's report, it may well be that TARP is just one big criminal problem. Listen to this: Barofsky's investigators ...

Israeli settlers reject Obama call to halt building (Reuters) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 5/19/2009
Reuters - Jewish settler leaders on Tuesday shrugged off President Barack Obama's call for Israel to halt settlement building in the occupied West Bank, saying Palestinians needed to "halt terror first."

Red Tape: Obama picks credit card reform over housing — msnbc.com: Politics 5/19/2009

Borger: Obama ignores the 'rules,' stirs the pot — CNN.com - Politics 5/19/2009
In politics, particularly after you've arrived at the White House, the rule of thumb is this: retreat from controversy. When it happens, as it inevitably will, try to back off. Change the subject if you can. And remember, calm is good. Pot-stirring, ...

Automakers, Obama announce mileage, pollution plan (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 5/19/2009
AP - President Barack Obama's proposed new fuel and emission standards for cars and trucks will save billions of barrels of oil but are expected to cost consumers an extra $1,300 per vehicle by the time the plan is complete in 2016.

SCOTUS politics: Profiling Napolitano — First Read 5/19/2009
The New York Times profiles potential SCOTUS pick Janet Napolitano. “To some, the fact that she has never been a judge makes Ms. Napolitano a long shot for the high court. To others, her success in elected office — putting pragmatic compromise ahead ...