Other solutions diverge from $700B package

By Anthony Faiola and David Cho / The Bulletin
September 24, 2008

To hear Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke tell it, there is only one plan to save the economy — use $700 billion in taxpayer money to take the worst of Wall Street’s assets off its books.

But leading economists and financial thinkers argue that there are a host of alternatives....

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