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About 'Eye on the Bailout'

Where do these numbers come from?

Our lists of recipients and programs deal only with expenditures by the Treasury Department – in other words, taxpayer money. We've included all such money allocated by Congress, both the broader $700 billion TARP bill and the separate $400 billion bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: a total of $1.1 trillion.

But the Treasury hasn't been working alone – it's been putting up big money alongside the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Our entries for individual financial institutions and programs indicate when the Treasury has committed funds in conjunction with the Fed and/or FDIC, but for a complete accounting of the Fed's and FDIC's spending so far, see Subsidyscope.

Most of the data shown in our project comes from the Treasury Department. But in a few cases, we've gathered information from other government agencies or press releases and regulatory filings from bailout recipients.

If you've got more questions about how we do this, please drop us a line.

What You Can Do Here:

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  See a complete list of where the money's going, from AIG to the smallest community bank.
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  A map that charts all the bailed out companies.
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  See a timeline of major bailout events.
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  Plain language descriptions and graphical breakdowns of the Treasury Department's bailout programs without confusing government acronyms.
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  Get the latest on the bailout from our blog and our links to the best bailout reporting.

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All of the data in this section is available for download – and you're free to reuse it so long as you give ProPublica credit, don't change any data, and don't sell it for money. (We're licensed under Creative Commons, which provides the legal details.)

You can download the data using the XML and CSV download links on all pages with tables. If there's sufficient interest we'll do a programmer's API. E-mail us if you're interested in the API and to let us know how you're using the data.

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