This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Contents: (1) Intro.; (2) Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP): Provisions of TARP: Asset Purchase; Asset Insur.; Program Size; Private Equity and Debt Considerations; Oversight Provisions; Assistance to Homeowners; Exec. Compensation; Mark-to-Market Accounting; Increase in Deposit Insur.; Treasury Actions Since Enactment; Asset Purchase and Insur.; Preferred Share Purchase; Homeowners¿ Assistance; Auto Mfrs.; Consumer Asset-Backed Securities; (3) Potential Causes of Financial Instability; (4) Sources of Current Market Turmoil; Mortgage Defaults, and Asset Prices; Liquidity and Uncertainty; Capital Adequacy and Leverage; (5) Evidence of the Real Effects of Financial Market Turmoil; Tightening Credit Markets. Illus.