700bn dollar mortgage bail-out plan (Channel 4)
Story date: 2008-09-20 08:43:10
Added on: 2008-09-20 08:54:05
The Bush administration is asking Congress to let the government buy 700 billion dollars (£382 billion) in bad mortgages as part of the largest financial bail-out in decades.
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