Monday, March 30, 2009

Scorecard

From a CNN blog entry, here is the current commitments of the US government to "fix" the US economy's problems. This is pretty breathtaking. I sure hope it works:

US Bailout Totals
DateBailoutAllocatedSpent
Dec 2007Term Auction Facility$600 billion$468.6 billion
Feb 2008Economic Stimulus Act of 2008$168 billion$168 billion
Mar 2008Bear Stearns bailout$29 billion$26.2 billion
Mar 2008Term Securities Lending Facility$200 billion$88.6 billion
Mar 2008Primary Dealer Credit Facilityn/a$61.3 billion
May 2008Student loan guarantees$130 billion$9 billion
Sept 2008Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailout$400 billion$59.8 billion
Sept 2008Foreign exchange dollar swapsUnlimited$327.8 billion
Oct 2008FHA housing rescue$320 billion$20 billion +
Oct 2008Auto industry energy efficiency loans$25 billion$0
Oct 2008Troubled Asset Relief Program$700 billion$323.4 billion
Oct 2008Money market guarantees$659 billion$15 billion
Oct 2008Commercial Paper Funding Facility$1.4 trillion$241.3 billion
Nov 2008Unemployment benefit extensions$8 billion$8 billion
Nov 2008Citigroup loan-loss backstop$245 billion$0
Nov 2008Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility$1 trillion$4.7 billion
Nov 2008GSE mortgage-backed securities purchases$1.25 trillion$236.2 billion
Nov 2008GSE debt purchases$100 billion$50.4 billion
Nov 2008FDIC Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program$1.5 trillion$297.1 billion
2008FDIC bank takeoversn/a$18.5 billion
Jan 2009Bank of America loan-loss backstop$97 billion$0
Jan 2009Credit Union deposit insurance guarantees$97 billion$0
Jan 2009U.S. Central Federal Credit Union capital injection$80 billion$0
Feb 2009American Recovery and Reinvestment Act$787.2 billionn/a
Feb 2009Foreclosure prevention$25 billion$0
Mar 2009AIG$182 billion$129.3 billion
Mar 2009U.S. government bond purchases$300 billion$15 billion
2009FDIC bank takeoversn/a$2.3 billion
Total:$10.5 trillion$2.6 trillion

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