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Troubled Assets Relief Program

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This article is about the Treasury fund. For the legislative bill and subsequent law, see Public Law 110-343. For the legislative history and the events leading to the law, see Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.

The Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP) is a program of the United States government to purchase assets and equity from financial institutions in order to strengthen the financial sector. It is the largest component of the government's measures in 2008 to address the subprime mortgage crisis.