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Posted by: Erick Erickson
Monday, September 29, 2008 at 03:32PM

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."
Source: http://www.forbes.com/businessinthebelt ... ilout.html