Now,the question is how and when to withdraw that support without harming a recovery, and how to avoid a repeat of the financial crisis.

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The goal is to avoid foreclosures without creating incentives for everybody else to stop paying the mortgage.

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But between those uncomfortable admissions lay another story, of an underpaid policeman arriving for an important job without the necessary equipment - shoe covers - to avoid contaminating the murder scene, and without enough "connections" - his word - or colleagues, to ensure that the most basic evidence could be processed in time for the bail hearing.

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