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Geithner: Bailout Program Almost Over

Ends of the Road

Cost $700 billion.

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Are America’s banks almost ready to stand on their own two feet again? Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday that the administration will soon end the $700 billion financial bailout program. “We can wind down this program,” he told the Senate Agriculture Committee. “Nothing would make me happier.” Geithner did not, however, provide details.

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