Behind the $700 billion bailout

nolanchart.com — Recent reports of the $700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 bailout of the U.S. banking system compels me to write a little (depending on what you think is "a little") about how finance works in the U.S. (Yes, I am aware that the actual number "only" has 12 digits in it.) Well, noticing how much I wrote it isn't a little, but it should provide you Dec 28, 2008 View in Crawl 4