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...Warren might consider it if she was not so deeply involved in the TARP business, which is ultimately more important,” says one faculty member...
...took to buy those assets. But still, [former Treasury Secretary Henry] Paulson and others haven't faced the one issue that has to be dealt with, and that's what you do with these loans and this bad real estate. Instead of that, they passed out all this TARP money to banks, and the banks aren't lending because the essential problem hasn't yet been solved...
...months, the nation's largest banks have raised just over $225 billion using government guarantees, according to Thomson Reuters. Had the banks had to raise that money on their own it would have been much more expensive. Morgan Stanley, another bank that has reportedly been looking to pay back TARP funds, has raised $23 billion in FDIC-backed debt since the program began in November. Hintz estimates the government's help is allowing Morgan Stanley to lower its borrowing costs by 5½ percentage points. That would have raised Morgan Stanley's expenses by nearly $1.3 billion a year...
...Banks exiting the TARP program are also looking to buy back the warrants they issued to the government in order to receive TARP funds. David Hendler, an analyst at CreditSights, estimates that it would cost JPMorgan nearly $2.6 billion to buy back their warrants from the government. "Banks may have to spend substantial sums to pay back their TARP warrants," says Hendler. Proponents of the banks paying back the government say the higher borrowing costs will only be temporary. As the market improves, banks will be able to issue bonds on their own at lower rates. Indeed, so-called bank...
...Still, the high costs of being TARP-free are causing some banks to say that for the time being they are better off with the government funding than without it. PNC Financial's chief executive Jim Rohr recently told Bloomberg that his bank, which got $7.6 billion in TARP funds, is planning on taking its time to repay the government. Doing anything else, he said, "would be punitive to shareholders...