Bailout will cost hundreds of billions
Saturday, September 20, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Struggling to stave off financial catastrophe, the Bush administration on Friday laid out a radical bailout plan with a huge price tag -- a takeover of a half-trillion dollars or more in worthless mortgages and other bad debt held by tottering institutions.
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