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Old 10-02-2008
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This is very comforting:

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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 number."
Full Article at Forbes

Maybe they should have written a bunch of big numbers down on little pieces of paper and pulled one out of a hat.
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