From Holman Jenkins in today's Wall Street Journal:
Maybe Washington will succeed in forestalling a deep and prolonged recession. Maybe all the money ($8 trillion by one count) being printed to acquire or insure mortgages, student loans, credit card receivables, commercial paper and banking shares will be seamlessly withdrawn once those assets are sold back to willing parties in the private sector when the panic has passed. Maybe taxpayers will even make a profit on the deal. As Doug Flutie can testify, sometimes a 65-yard pass into the end zone lands in the hands of your own receiver.
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