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Article: Bailout becomes a banking buy-in.(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
- Article date:
- October 15, 2008
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Byline: Associated Press
WASHINGTON Big banks started falling in line Tuesday behind a rejiggered bailout plan that will have the government forking over as much as $250 billion in exchange for partial ownership putting the worlds bastion of capitalism and free markets squarely in the banking business.
Some early signs were hopeful for the latest in a flurry of radical efforts to save the nations financial system: Credit was a bit easier to come by. And stocks were down but not alarmingly so after Mondays stratospheric leap.
The new plan, President Bush declared, is "not intended to take over the free market but to preserve it."
Its ...