Financial Institutions: Building Blocks of the Economy
Student Worksheet
Credit rating agencies overrated the mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations banks packaged from risky home loans, so when home prices fell in 2007 those products lost value and eroded bank capital. The Troubled Asset Relief Program injected more than $400 billion into major institutions, while cooperative lending circles supplied microcredit to small entrepreneurs shut out elsewhere.
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