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John Tierney: One thing I am hearing is the program is working well. And one thing that I know is we saved over $60 billion by taking…

On the recordOctober 24, 2011
One thing I am hearing is the program is working well. And one thing that I know is we saved over $60 billion by taking away guarantees in subsidies to private lenders who had then relatively high interest rates.
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John Tierney
Massachusetts

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Tierney highlights the success of a program and savings from eliminating subsidies.

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