An administration official suggests that money originally set aside to buy the troubled assets of financial firms may be used for job creation.
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Before the creation of the FDIC, banks held as much as 25% capital against their assets, however with the creation of deposit insurance those ratios moved to approximately 6% and remained there until the recent crisis.
Perhaps the biggest driver of the Tea Party movement was not the health care debate, but the bailout of Wall Street and the creation of the Troubled Assets Relief Program.
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