Where does bailout money come from?

Courtesy Marketplace  Wed, 09/17/2008 - 15:03

The government's been throwing cash around willy-nilly to bail out Bear Stearns, AIG and Fannie and Freddie.

Where's all that money coming from? And how often can Bernanke and Paulson keep going back to that well? John Dimsdale reports.


 

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