The Troubled Asset Relief Program Was Originally Designed to ________

Multiple Choice

The Troubled Asset Relief Program was originally designed to ________, but funds were ultimately used ________.

A) purchase and insure assets held by financial institutions; to purchase equity from financial institutions and bail out U.S. automakers
B) nationalize banks; for unemployment insurance and financing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
C) bail out banks; for purchases of "toxic assets"
D) bolster bank stock prices; to pay bank executive bonuses
E) prevent takeovers of U.S. banks by foreign nationals; to insure assets held by member banks