The bail-out plan makes unprecedented demands for fiscal adjustment to trim both the current-account deficit and inflation.

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Policymakers have dropped hints that should one country's financing troubles spread to another, a bail-out plan is in place.

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America's bail-out plan could even accelerate the pace of write-downs on structured credit if it sets a price below today's European valuations for nasty assets.

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The financial crisis is talked about in large, abstract terms: the bail-out plan, the hundreds of billions of dollars, the peaks and valleys of the Dow Jones industrial average.

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He argued there had been a "lack of detail" about the proposed bail-out plan for Greece and asked how the financial burdens would be spread between EU countries and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as well as the conditions imposed.

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Some banks, including Goldman, say that back in October they had enough capital and took part in the bail-out only to show solidarity with the government's plan.

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The commission threatened, for instance, to block the government's recent bail-out of Alstom, an engineering group, approving a rescue plan only after France agreed to last-minute changes.

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If Germany truly is preparing to go ahead with the Greek bail-out, the harsh public comments and the leaked bank aid plan would be signs of astonishing incompetence.

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Even if there is another bail-out of around 110bn euros, Greeks have lost faith in the plan.

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George Voinovich, R-Ohio, spearheaded a bipartisan effort to bail out General Motors (nyse: GM - news - people ), Chrysler and Ford with a plan based largely on the administration's proposal.

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