With $2.5 trillion you can fix anything
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner went to Capitol Hill yesterday to announce his plan to rescue the country’s economy. Geithner talked about flooding the financial system with $2.5 trillion dollars, with much of that money expected to come from China. Stephen Labaton, reporter for the New York Times, wrote a front-page article about the bailout plan and Geithner’s vision and he joins us now.
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