Feds Weigh New Bailouts for Smaller Banks

With the residential and commercial real-estate markets continuing to hammer smaller US banks, the Treasury and other federal agencies are trying to diagram help for institutions considered too much of a gamble under original bailout terms. Congressional Democrats are “very, very supportive” of such a move, a source tells AP, while, predictably, Republicans consider it “a uniquely bad idea.”
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