How much tarp money is still owed

Treasury also cut its stake in the company to Related: AIG closer to being out of government hands. But those bailouts were repaid at a profit to taxpayers. The question, of course, is whether the bailout was worth it.

Still, there appears to be some massive failures in TARP. Perhaps the biggest tragedy of TARP was that the government could never figure out how to use the money to assist more struggling homeowners. Originally, it was estimated the program would help as many as 4 million homeowners facing foreclosure.

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