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As an artist and scholar I prefer the specific detail to the generalization, images to ideas, obscure facts to clear symbols, and the discovered wild fruit to the synthetic jam.
- Vladimir Nabokov
- Vladimir Nabokov
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- Economic Theory is Being Rewritten
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- Obama Told Us He'd Hire Hillary
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- While We're Celebrating Chicago Things
- Absolutely Priceless
- The Times, They Are A-Changin'
- Wilmington, Ohio
- Hide the Guns and Children, Here Comes Obama
- More on a New Deal Approach to the Crisis
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- President of All, Commander-in-Chief for Some
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2 comments:
Larry, I'm not sure all of this $7.4 trillion is attributable to the bailout. Perhaps it is as "little" as $1.5196 trillion. Also that is the maximum allowable amount and some of it requires collateral. Am I missing something?
Joel
You might be right. I think the way it is calculated, it represents a potential liability.
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