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Will the bailout work?

Published 09/21/08

As the federal government steps to the center of the financial crisis, crafting plans to take ownership of hundreds of billions of dollars worth of bad mortgages, a pair of simple questions rise to the fore: Will this intervention finally be enough restore order? And what will this grand rescue cost taxpayers?

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The Treasury Department, as overseer of the financial system, has unleashed an astonishing array of initiatives in a bid to stave off catastrophe. It took over the country's largest mortgage finance companies and put untold billions of taxpayer dollars on the line to prop up other lenders.

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