Capital Gains

On Oct. 3, President George W. Bush signed into law the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to help provide liquidity and stability to the nation’s struggling financial institutions. The centerpiece of the act is the Troubled Asset Relief Program, which authorizes the Treasury Department to directly purchase troubled assets from financial institutions and to establish and manage an auction system pursuant to which such troubled assets may be purchased by private investors.

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