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I'd be skeptical of the Treasury Department projections personally.  Espiecally if you look at how it's calculated.

http://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/data-chart-center/Documents/20120413_FinancialCrisisResponse.pdf

See page 12.


The Car Industry bailouts were great... as it was pretty clear the car industry was a situation where they finally had the right ideas.  They just tried to implement them at the worst time.

The bank ones... I'd still be wary on. Especially since "Too big to fail" has become "Even too bigger to fail" and is likely to get "Way more too big to fail" once all the new banking regulations come in to being and force out all the smaller banks.