TARP was fully repaid. It didn&#x27;t take money away from routine infrastructure spending. TARP was financed through deficit spending, and it never amounted to $700 billion as it was reduced to a limit of $475 billion. The final tally was $426b put in, $441b repaid.<p>At this point China has thrown roughly a trillion dollars just at trying to prop up their stock market [1]. That doesn&#x27;t include what they&#x27;ve burned trying to control their currency, what they&#x27;ve spent trying to keep their real estate bubble from completely falling apart, and what they&#x27;ve spent dealing with zombie companies and their vast shadow corporate and muni debt, and so on.<p>[1] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;uk.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;uk-china-markets-rescue-idUKKCN0PX0AU20150723" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;uk.reuters.com&#x2F;article&#x2F;uk-china-markets-rescue-idUKKC...</a>