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      America's Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner is extending the TARP bank bailout programme until next October. Given that there is a queue of banks trying to ...

      America's Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner is extending the TARP bank bailout programme until next October. Given that there is a queue of banks trying to repay what they've borrowed, we ask why?

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