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The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, also known as the "bank bailout of 2008" or the "Wall Street bailout", was a United States federal law enacted during the Great Recession, which created federal programs to "bail out" failing financial institutions and banks.
The bailout of AIG was essentially a conduit for the U.S. government to bail out banks around the world, as the money was used by AIG to make good on its obligations. [55] A timeline of some of the significant events in the crisis from 2007 to 2008 includes:
The solvency of other U.S. banks was severely threatened, forcing the George W. Bush government to intervene with the $700 billion bailout plan of the Troubled Asset Relief Program. As a result of the economic and financial crisis, over 65 U.S. banks have become insolvent and have been taken over by the FDIC since the beginning of 2008.
This drew criticism from those who likened it to the far-reaching government bailout during the 2008 financial crisis, which cost taxpayers $700 billion to save struggling banks and other firms.
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A bailout is the provision of financial help to a corporation or country which otherwise would be on the brink of bankruptcy.A bailout differs from the term bail-in (coined in 2010) under which the bondholders or depositors of global systemically important financial institutions (G-SIFIs) are forced to participate in the recapitalization process but taxpayers are not.
The U.S. has roughly one month until the government runs out of money, and the talks to avoid that are a mess, writes Philip Elliott. ... Republicans may end up needing a bailout from Democratic ...