Hey, remember the TARP program? If banks are now paying back TARP funds, then what happened to those toxic assets? Are they sitting in a canyon in Wyoming for the next 10,000 years? Not exactly.

Using a whiteboard, markers, and a delicious gravy metaphor, Paddy Hirsch of American Public Media’s Marketplace explains.

Where’s the toxic waste? [Marketplace]

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