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Economy Rescue: Adding Up the Dollars

The government is engaged in an unprecedented - and expensive - effort to rescue the economy. Here are all the elements of the bailouts.

Date Bailout Allocated Spent
December 2007 Term Auction Facility $1.6 trillion $1.6 trillion
February 2008 Economic Stimulus Act of 2008 $168 billion $168 billion
March 2008 Bear Stearns bailout $29 billion $29 billion
March 2008 Discount window n/a $148 billion1
May 2008 Student loan guarantees $9 billion unknown
July 2008 IndyMac failure costs $8.9 billion $8.9 billion
September 2008 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac bailout $200 billion $13.8 billion
September 2008 Foreign exchange dollar swaps  Unlimited2 n/a2
October 2008 FHA housing rescue $320 billion unknown
October 2008 Auto industry energy efficiency loans $25 billion $0 billion
October 2008 Troubled Asset Relief Program $700 billion $201 billion
November 2008 AIG capital investment $40 billion $40 billion
October 2008 Bank capital investments $250 billion $161 billion
November 2008 Citigroup capital investment $20 billion $0 billion
November 2008 TALF loss provisions $20 billion $0 billion
October 2008 Money market guarantees $719 billion unknown
October 2008 Commercial Paper Funding Facility $1.4 trillion $303.9 billion
November 2008 Unemployment benefit extensions $8 billion $8 billion
November 2008 AIG $152.5 billion3 $117.2 billion3
November 2008 Citigroup loan-loss backstop $300 billion $0 billion
November 2008 Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility $200 billion $0 billion
November 2008 GSE mortgage-backed securities purchases $500 billion $0 billion
November 2008 GSE debt purchases $100 billion $0 billion
November 2008 FDIC Temporary Liquidity Guarantee Program Unlimited $40 billion
2008 FDIC bank takeovers $15.5 billion $15.5 billion
Total: $7.2 trillion $2.6 trillion

1 Daily average
2 Fed increased amount from $620 billion to an unlimited cap, spending unknown
3 Includes $40 billion under TARP
Sources: Federal Reserve, Treasury, FDIC
Note: Figures as of December 4, 2008