Wednesday, October 15, 2008

$25 billion here, $25 billion there ...


... pretty soon, it adds up to real money:

After initially putting up $25 billion of public money to buy mortgages, the Department of Finance is prepared to increase that limit as needed up to $225 billion, at which point the risk of taxpayer losses starts to rise sharply.

In wholly unrelated news, the fundamentals of our economy are strong. I just thought you needed to know that.

2 comments:

Pearce said...

CC, you're obviously as much of an insomniac as I am... That or you work night shifts.

sinned34 said...

That is absolutely infuriating. Canada has, what, 10% of the population of the US, yet the Cons are getting prepared to pony up to 1/3 of what the US government has for their bailout package?

What the hell happened to the conservative mantras of letting the market settle things out and keeping government out of it?