Troubled Asset Relief Program

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If anything, the nation’s financial crisis has clearly led to some creative ideas around how to prop up ailing financial markets and the institutions that make up much of it: from TALF, to TGLP, to TARP. But as the Troubled Asset Relief Program has gone from savior to what JP Morgan Chase & Co. [stock JPM][/stock] chief Jamie Dimon last week labeled a “scarlet letter,” officials in the Obama administration have been vexed by how to best continue to aid a financial sector that is still reeling from punches to the collective gut.