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Need help updating GMAC payback

I was going to update the chart in the article, but I'm not sure how to do the coding for a reference. In any case, I found this article:

http://www.nationaljournal.com/economy/aig-repays-6-9-billion-to-treasury-20110309

which is about AIG, but near the end mentions $2.7 billion from Ally Financial (formerly GMAC). Could someone update this? Thanks --Daniel (talk) 20:51, 23 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Where is General Motors?

This article seems to have been diffused through some corporate lens; Wikipedia contains no definitive information as to the disbursement of funds to General Motors, neither to the process of their inclusion into the TARP, nor the sum total. This is an encyclopedia, designed to convey complex realities through tangible concepts. The financial section of the site as a whole seems to have failed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.169.100.117 (talk) 19:56, 7 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Maiden Lane Transactions

Should the Maiden Lane Transactions ($200 billion) be included here? It seems like they should at least be in the "see also" list of wiki pages.Jeff Carr (talk) 14:13, 10 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Bailout! The Game

I don't find a link to an article about some random boardgame appropriate for an encyclopedia article on an important topic. So I'm deleting it. It's just advertising, and links to a page that was nominated for deletion for conflict of interest. --Mujokan (talk) 14:26, 16 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Update "Participants" section info from 2009

There is a sentence in the "Participants" section that begins:

"As of 2009, the U.S. Treasury has not yet released ..."

It is already 2011.

This sentence should be updated to indicate either what the Treasury released or that it still has not released it. 71.109.153.170 (talk) 04:57, 7 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Expenditures and Commitments Update

The Capital Purchase Program expenditure data needs to be updated. The cite for the data has also moved. The CPP has now expended $205 billion.

http://www.treasury.gov/initiatives/financial-stability/investment-programs/cpp/Pages/capitalpurchaseprogram.aspx

Gmaestas (talk) 13:17, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Removal of paragraph about Federal Reserve programs

I removed a paragraph added by Ghostofnemo to the "Expenditures and commitments" section on 5 December 2010. It is about Federal Reserve programs, not TARP or any other US Treasury program. The content belongs in Federal Reserve responses to the subprime crisis. --NilsTycho (talk) 21:04, 2 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Making opening section cleaner and more objective.

The opening section seems like it would be cleaner and a better introduction to the topic if we moved the detailed references to what amounts were borrowed and paid back by the various companies. This information might be better suited to a separate section on 'TARP repayment'.

The opening section seems to be geared as a pre-emptive defense of the progamme itself, and the article would be improved by removing this pro-TARP bias. Specifically, there is bias in mentioning that 'there were fears' that the government would hold on to the companies for a period of years because the section that follows this statement seems to be trying to vindicate TARP in light of those fears. I have nothing against presenting this evidence in the article under 'controversies' or 'disgreements' but it does not seem right for the opening section.

A second specific instance of bias, it seems to me, is the comparison of the amount of GDP spend on TARP compared to the S&L crisis. Again, this seems to be a pre-emptive defense against charges that the TARP was excessive in scope and while this information is relevant to the controversies over TARP, it doesn't seem appropriate for the introductory section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.80.41.73 (talk) 23:18, 7 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Edit request

I believe this is out of date. " While it was once feared the government would be holding companies like GM, AIG and Citigroup for several years, those companies are preparing to buy back the Treasury's stake and emerge from TARP within a year"

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 A second specific instance of bias, it seems to me, is the comparison of the amount of GDP spend on TARP compared to the S&L crisis. Again, this seems to be a pre-emptive defense against charges that the TARP was excessive in scope and while this information is relevant to the controversies over TARP, it doesn't seem appropriate for the introductory section.  <span style="font-size: smaller;" class="autosigned">— Preceding [[Wikipedia:Signatures|unsigned]] comment added by [[Special:Contributions/190.80.41.73|190.80.41.73]] ([[User talk:190.80.41.73|talk]]) 23:18, 7 October 2011 (UTC)</span><!-- Template:Unsigned IP --> <!--Autosigned by SineBot-->
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+I believe this is out of date. " While it was once feared the government would be holding companies like GM, AIG and Citigroup for several years, those companies are preparing to buy back the Treasury's stake and emerge from TARP within a year"