Просто прЭлЭстно!
Поулсон уже потратил половину 700 миллиардов, что ему выделил Конгресс и всего за 77 дней (!). И-з них почти 50 миллиардов только на Сити-банк. Ну и еще 40 на AIG. Теперь Поулсон хочет вторую половину - еще 350 миллиардов. Насколько их хватит - один Всевышний ведает. Думаю, что такими темпами - не надолго. Что дальше будет - неприятно даже представлять. Печатный станок от перегрева просто лопнет.

By Friday, Oct. 3, Congress had passed a 451-page bill that President Bush signed into law within hours. The law granted Treasury up to $700 billion, half of which was made available right away.

Since then, Treasury has:

sent checks totaling $168 billion in varying amounts to 116 banks;
committed another $82 billion to capitalize more banks;
bought $40 billion in preferred shares of American International Group (AIG, Fortune 500) so the troubled insurer could pay off an earlier loan from the Federal Reserve;
committed $20 billion to back any losses that the Federal Reserve Bank of New York might incur in a new program to lend money to owners of securities backed by credit card debt, student loans, auto loans and small business loans;
committed to invest $20 billion in Citigroup on top of $25 billion the bank had already received;
committed $5 billion as a loan loss backstop to Citigroup;
agreed to loan $13.4 billion to GM and Chrysler to get them through the next few months.

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