TARP -- the infamous Troubled Assets Relief Program that bailed out Wall Street in 2008 -- is over. The Treasury Department announced it will be completing the sale of the remaining shares it owns of the banks and of General Motors. But in reality it's not over.

TARP played a significant role preventing the mini-depression from becoming a full-blown Great Depression, but part of the cost is to distort further incentives at the heart of Wall Street.

NEW YORK — Bank of America Corp. said Wednesday it plans to repay its $45 billion in government bailout funds in the next few days, a move that ...

Citigroup Inc.'s $301 billion of federal asset guarantees, extended by the U.S. last year to help save the bank from collapse, will be audited to calc...

Many of the banks that got federal aid to support increased lending have instead used some of the money to make investments, repay debts or buy other ...

A small business owner's chances of getting an SBA 7(a) loan are slim to none. The restrictions are absurd, and the application process beyond reason.

WASHINGTON — A key government effort to ease the credit crisis reached a milestone Wednesday as 10 large banks said they had repaid a total of $...

Bank of America's CEO Kenneth Lewis told the Financial Times the $20 billion in funds he requested in January was a "tactical mistake" that made the c...

UPDATE: Iberiabank is first bank to return TARP funds it accessed via the CPP program. As Citigroup takes a step closer to nationalization and atten...

The investigator in charge of overseeing the expenditure of TARP funds -- money for banks to stabilize the financial industry -- released his first re...

Six more banks -- four of them in California -- have announced their approval for the Treasury Department's $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program...