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29 Nov 2010 23:01

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Politics, U.S.: TARP: Not as expensive as we’d thought it was

  • $109
    billlion     estimated losses of the TARP program, as of last March, according to CBO
  • $66 billion that same estimate, revised five months later by CBO
  • $25 billion the most recent estimate of TARP’s losses, as of today  source
Posted by Seth Millstein • 0 Comments • Permalink

06 Jun 2010 22:05

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Biz, U.S.: Real reason we should fear 2012: Our growing national debt

  • $13 trillion in total debt; it could outpace GDP by 2012 source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

12 Aug 2009 21:09

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U.S.: To call this year’s deficit freaking huge is to understate

  • $1.8 trillion the size of the deficit that the government has this year
  • four times bigger than last year, kids; and, uh, last year was a freaking record source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink
 
 
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