"I was going to dub the new financial plan TANF 2 temporary assistance to needy financial institutions, without, you know, any of the means-testing or work requirements involved when poor people get help."But Jamie Galbraith (private communication) has trumped me; he says its the Bad Assets Relief Fund."http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/

Margaret O’Brien Steinfels is a former editor of Commonweal. 

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