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To: SeekAndFind
after wasting hundreds of billions of dollars propping up businesses that were to big to fail we come to the conclusion it's better to let them fail? Great.
7 posted on 09/09/2011 8:09:18 AM PDT by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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after wasting hundreds of billions of dollars propping up businesses that were to big to fail we come to the conclusion it's better to let them fail? Great.

In accounting, we refer to those billions of dollars as a "sunk cost".

9 posted on 09/09/2011 8:10:21 AM PDT by dfwgator
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