The Ultimate Bailout Failure: Banks Decrease Lending Under TARP

Washington Independent reports:

As the economy continues to sink, the Wall Street Journal today documents an increasingly obvious fact: Most of the big banks that got a total of $148 billion in taxpayer money didn’t use it to make loans. Instead, lending activity at 10 of the 13 banks that received funds under the Troubled Assets Relief Program actually declined by 1.4 percent in the last quarter, the Journal reports.