The Source

"But whether a check is for ten dollars, or ten billion dollars, it is expected that those numbers entitle the payee to something--if only other numbers borrowed into existence by someone, somewhere, sometime. They could be numbers engraved on paper, or electronic entries in an account, but they?ve got to be there if the check is 'good.' So the question arises, at least in my mind: Where are the numbers that comprise the three trillion for the bailout?" Column by Paul Hein.