Plan to buy toxic assets may use $1 trillion

Monday, March 23, 2009

WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration's latest attempt to tackle the banking crisis and get loans flowing will create a new government entity, the Public-Private Investment Program, to help purchase as much as $1 trillion in toxic assets on banks' books.

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