Tag: bailout
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Survey says…. $700 billion!
I somehow missed this a few days ago. From Forbes: In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are fuzzy. “It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large…
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Who’s voting a blank check for those #*%)%(
Here’s the silver lining to global financial collapse. It’s kept me from obsessing about Sarah Palin and McCain’s latest whopper for the last week. Except in the context of financial collapse, for which there’s been plenty of material. What’s fascinating is watching this in the blogging era. Roughly a billion serious economists are online, and…