Media grossly exaggerate potential cost of TARP
July 21, 2009 5:43 pm ET
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SUMMARY: Media figures have cited the special inspector general for TARP in reporting that the potential cost of TARP could be $23.7 trillion. But by citing that misleading figure, these media figures have grossly distorted the risk to taxpayers.








