You Don’t Have TARP’s Automotive Industry Financing Program To Kick Around Anymore

Author:: Jon Shazar
Updated:: Jan 14, 2019
Original:: Dec 22, 2014

Or Ally Financial, for that matter. (Well, you can continue to kick Ally Financial around, but if you’d like to do so as a shareholder, which every American citizen has sort of been for the last six years, you’ll actually have to buy your own shares now.)

The U.S. government closed a chapter in financial-crisis history Friday when it sold its remaining shares of Ally Financial Inc. and shuttered its auto-bailout program, ending the last major pieces of a $426 billion rescue package that saved a swath of U.S. companies but never won public support.
The Treasury Department said the 2008 Troubled Asset Relief Program has netted a small profit, returning $441.7 billion on the $426.4 billion invested….

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