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Obama's economic 'bail-out' plan

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US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner has unveiled details of the Obama administration's plans to rescue the economy. Mr Geithner said the government would use about a hundred-billion dollars of bail-out money to entice private investors to buy what have become known as "toxic assets".

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