ROLLING UP THE TARP -- Review & Outlook, The Wall Street Journal

The $700 billion for banks has become an all-purpose bailout fund.

The Troubled Asset Relief Program will expire on December 31, unless Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner exercises his authority to extend it to next October. We hope he doesn't. Historians will debate TARP's role in ending the financial panic of 2008, but today there is little evidence that the government needs or can prudently

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