
In the days following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the government came to the rescue of AIG - to the tune of $150 billion; created the TARP - the Troubled Asset Relief Program - for $700 billion; and saved Citigroup from certain death by pumping in $45 billion in equity and effectively underwriting $306 billion in toxic assets Read more.
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