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  2. Troubled Asset Relief Program - Wikipedia

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    TARP allowed the United States Department of the Treasury to purchase or insure up to $700 billion of "troubled assets," defined as "(A) residential or commercial obligations will be bought, or other instruments that are based on or related to such mortgages, that in each case was originated or issued on or before March 14, 2008, the purchase of which the Secretary determines promotes ...

  3. List of most commonly challenged books in the United States

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    This list of the most commonly challenged books in the United States refers to books sought to be removed or otherwise restricted from public access, typically from a library or a school curriculum. This list is primarily based on U.S. data gathered by the American Library Association 's Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF), which gathers data ...

  4. Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. List of writedowns due to subprime crisis - Wikipedia

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    bank $37.7 bln [1] [2] [3] Citigroup: bank $39.1 bln [4] [5] [6] Merrill Lynch: investment bank $29.1 bln [7] [8] [9] Morgan Stanley: investment bank $11.5 bln [10] [11] [12] Crédit Agricole: bank $4.8 bln [13] HSBC: bank $20.4 bln [14] [15] [16] Bank of America: bank $7.95 bln [17] [18] [19] Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce: bank $3.2 bln ...

  6. Structural adjustment - Wikipedia

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    The IMF and World Bank (two Bretton Woods institutions) require borrowing countries to implement certain policies in order to obtain new loans (or to lower interest rates on existing ones). These policies are typically centered around increased privatization , liberalizing trade and foreign investment, and balancing government deficit. [ 2 ]

  7. Riprap - Wikipedia

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    Riprap causes morphological changes in the riverbeds they surround. One such change is the reduction of sediment settlement in the river channel, which can lead to scouring of the river bed as well as coarser sediment particles.

  8. Rip Raps - Wikipedia

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    Rip Raps is a small 15 acre (60,000 m 2) artificial island at the mouth of the harbor area known as Hampton Roads in the independent city of Hampton in southeastern Virginia in the United States. Its name is derived from the Rip Rap Shoals in Hampton Roads, which also gave their name to a 19th-century criminal gang.

  9. When to Rob a Bank - Wikipedia

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    When to Rob a Bank: ...And 131 More Warped Suggestions and Well-Intended Rants is an edited collection of blog posts by American authors Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, authors of the Freakonomics series. It was published by HarperCollins imprint William Morrow on May 5, 2015.