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When Obama was inaugurated, he and his team had an insight - though whether the insight was conscious or not I don't know. But it was this: The TARP $700 billion price tag was a new kind of model.
John Podhoretz
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John Podhoretz
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 18
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