Issues :
Bailout Transparency :
Useful Tools
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- Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, on PublicMarkup.
- Financial Bailout Oversight Calendar: Hearings, Report Due Dates and Events, by OpenTheGovernment.org.
- Full Searchable and Sortable Listing of TARP Transactions, courtesy of Craig Jennings of OMB Watch. (updated 1/23/09)
- BankTracker, by the Investigative Reporting Workshop, provides information on financial health of TARP recipients using data from the FDIC.
- Bailout Breakdown: Who's getting how much from the government, a graphic of bailout money requested in comparison to market value by the Associated Press
- If you were a Senator, what would you ask the Wall Street bankers?, US PIRG asks users to vote on which of the five best questions they like the most
- Show Me the TARP Money, a map of institutions receiving TARP money by ProPublica.
- Bailout Bank Biographies, by Taxpayers for Common Sense.
- SubsidyScope Bailout Project; a project of The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Sunlight Foundation, the site will offer data and analysis on federal market interventions of all types over the next several years.
- Primary Dealer Credit Facility: Wikipedia; a thorough description of one of the semi-secretive lending facilities at the Fed that now allows investment banks to borrow directly from the Fed's discount window by Matt Sherman of CEPR
- Paulson's Gift, an estimate of costs and benefits of Secretary Paulson's financial bailout plan by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the Center for Economic Policy Research.
- FOIA Requests, Complaints and Responses
- The Federal Reserve
- Financial Crisis Timeline, hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the site includes recent actions and news, a timeline of events, and links to related data series, publications, and cooperating agencies.
- The Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER), a project by the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. On this web site you will find links to scanned images of historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents.
- Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility: Terms and Conditions, by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; see also the FAQ.
- Details of Needed Bailout Data, originally drafted by the Economic Policy Institute and further developed by the Bailout Watch partner organizations.
