New president likely faces debt, recession

 
By The Associated Press
Published: November 4, 2008

WASHINGTON — The government, raising cash to pay for the array of financial rescue packages, said Monday it plans to borrow $550 billion in the last three months of this year — and that’s just a down payment.

Treasury Department officials also projected the government would need to borrow $368 billion more in the first three months of 2009, meaning the next president will confront an ocean of red ...


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