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WASHINGTON - President Obama’s top economic advisers have determined that they can shore up the nation’s banking system . . .
Converting those loans to common shares would turn the federal aid into available capital for a bank — and give the government a large ownership stake in return.
Is this why they forced banks that had no troubled assets to take the TARP money anyway?