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TARP Lawyer Barofsky Leaves, Cites Successes and a Failure
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Liz Rappaport of the Wall Street Journal interviews Neil Barofsky, inspector general of the U.S. Troubled Asset Relief Program. Barofsky is asked what is his biggest failure. He says the biggest failure is the failure of TARP to preserve home ownership. He goes on to say that the biggest nonfinancial cost of TARP is "too big to fail." And he warns that the there will be another bubble because of all the money that is going into the housing, commodities and other markets. The next blow he says could be much more signifcant for the U.S. economy. Is Fed chairman Bernanke listening?
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