What most stopped the 2008 panic was the clarification of how TARP would be used: the panic intensified when TARP was rolled out to buy toxic assets in a way nobody understood, and stopped quickly once policymakers changed course about three weeks later and provided clarity.
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John TaylorEvidence Quote
“the panic occurred primarily from the time the tarp was rolled out where they were going to buy toxic assets and nobody could figure out how that was actually gonna work”
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