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TARP INSPECTOR GENERAL: Bank bailout mostly benefited banks. ?Worse, Treasury apparently has chose?

By Glenn Reynolds

TARP INSPECTOR GENERAL: Bank bailout mostly benefited banks. “Worse, Treasury apparently has chosen to ignore rather than support real efforts at reform, such as those advocated by Sheila Bair, the chairwoman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, to simplify or shrink the most complex financial institutions. In the final analysis, it has been Treasury?s broken promises that have turned TARP ? which was instrumental in saving the financial system at a relatively modest cost to taxpayers ? into a program commonly viewed as little more than a giveaway to Wall Street executives.”

Who could have seen that coming?

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on March 30, 2011 (boomark / email).