Quote:
You won't believe where that $700-billion bailout figure came from
LA Times Blog post
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You know where that very important $700-billion figure came from?
Here's a quote from that Forbes story:
"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."
They made it up to be sufficiently ginormous to frighten everyone into rapid action.
And it worked.
--Andrew Malcolm
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/wash...lout-plan.html
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Last edited by DirkFTW; 09-29-2008 at 01:33 PM.
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