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September 29, 2008 - 9:27 am - by Richard Fernandez
Doug
2008-09-30 09:39:55

Understanding $700,000,000,000.00
The Bottom Line:

If the Treasury simply took the $700 Billion and started paying off taxpayer mortgages, they could pay off every mortgage in the country worth less than $75,000… Or put another way, $700 Billion could pay off well over half of all outstanding first mortgages in the entire country.

Do you really think they need this much money?

So I say we just take the cash and pay off half the mortgages out there and see what that does to the credit market and the economy.