Thursday, February 25, 2010

Banking Activity for TARP CPP Recipients!

If you're so inclined to track every dollar and every bailout recipient of our U.S. Government, there is a frequently updated database to help you with this, no doubt pleasurable endevour. Subsidyscope, a project of the PEW Charitable Trusts, has a wealth of information, charts, graphs and datasets on the bank bailout, as well as a map of recipients of TARP bailout funds, by county.


Subsidyscope.com http://subsidyscope.com/bailout/tarp/map/ enables you to mouse over a county to see banking activity for TARP Capital Purchase Program (CPP) recipient institutions in that county. You can make a selection from the drop down menu to view share of total deposits held in each county that are held by a TARP CPP recipient; share of total branches in each county that are managed by a TARP CPP recipient, or the percentage of total HMDA lending originated in each county by TARP CPP recipient banks.

A history of U.S. Gov't bailouts can be found here: http://www.propublica.org/special/government-bailouts
It also allows you to view the latest bailouts and actually find a bailout near you:


"With the flurry of recent government bailouts, we decided to try to put them in perspective. The circles below represent the size of U.S. government bailout, calculated in 2008 dollars. They are also in chronological order. Our chart focuses on U.S. government bailouts of U.S. corporations (and one city). We have not included instances where the U.S. government aided other nations."
According to their website the current outfloes total: $499.5 billion This includes money that has actually been spent, invested, or loaned.
Click on a state to find the latest, plus historical data, and details on tax increases and benefit cuts. http://projects.propublica.org/unemployment/


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