the program has failed, Mr. Secretary, to mend our ailing financial system, despite having spent nearly $350 billion in taxpayers' money.
the financial system remains badly damaged, and the economy has deteriorated sharply as it has become clear that TARP is not the magic bulle...
Is this plan, conceptually, a 180-degree turn from the Paulson plan? Or is it kind of the son of Paulson?
TARP has been marred by lack of initial planning and ad hoc implementation and a flawed premise.
I see the conceptual idea, but I don't see the details yet.
What elements of the Geithner plan can be implemented immediately.
How do we restart the securitization of markets, which you think is so important to our financial--how do we bring thrust back to that, beca...
I do. And I believe, and Senator Dodd knows, in this committee, we are going to have to restructure our regulatory system.
I think cost is important here.
I hope you are smarter than that.
Is this plan conceptually 180-degree turn from the Paulson plan? Or is it kind of the son of Paulson?
Is this plan conceptually a 180-degree turn from the Paulson plan, or is it kind of the 'son of Paulson'.
this might be important or something like this, but that straightening out the banking system, bringing trust, making loans to the communiti...
Trust in the banking system, especially Wall Street banks right now, it doesn't exist.
The American people, as you well know right now--you can see it in polls, you can just go home, any of us can--they don't trust the TARP pro...
The American people can stand the truth. They can stand the truth.
One of the stated purposes that we have all talked about here of the TARP is to maximize overall returns to the taxpayers.
A 33-percent failure rate does not to me exactly provide confidence to the market that either Treasury or any of the Federal regulators, inc...
