If they were used to bail out commercial banks directly, they could break the pernicious circle in which unstable banks use the debt of barely solvent governments to shore themselves up.

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The system costs less to install and maintain than the existing furnaces, it virtually eliminates carbon dioxide emissions and it enables the use of higher-quality, solvent-based paints.

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