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Treasury’s 36% return

The Treasury Department’s Public-Private Investment Program, in which the government partnered with private money-management firms to invest in devalued mortgage securities, has returned 36 percent in its first year. Stocks returned about 10 percent during the same period; bonds, about 8.2 percent.

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