Watchdog: Treasury overpaid for bank stocks

breitbart.com — A government watchdog group says the federal government overpaid for stocks and other assets from financial institutions under its $700 billion rescue program. The Congressional Oversight Panel for the bailout funds told the Senate Banking committee Thursday that Treasury in 2008 paid $254 billion and received assets worth about $176 billion. Feb 5, 2009 View in Crawl 4