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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/PresidentBushNominatesHenryPaulsonasTreasurySecretary2.jpg/220px-PresidentBushNominatesHenryPaulsonasTreasurySecretary2.jpg "President Bush signed the $700 billion bank bailout bill on October 3, 2008. The official name was the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson had asked Congress to approve a $700 billion bailout to buy mortgage-backed securities that were in danger of defaulting." https://www.thebalance.com/what-was-the-bank-bailout-bill-3305675 "Since being established, the OITC has become the largest single owner of Home Mortgage Securities in the World today" https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_globalbanking130.htm "Most people think that the big bank bailout was the $700 billion that the treasury department used to save the banks during the financial crash in September of 2008. But this is a long way from the truth because the bailout is still ongoing. The S