In fact, some of the most basic details, including the $700 billion figure Treasury would use to buy up bad debt, are fuzzy.

“It’s not based on any particular data point,” a Treasury spokeswoman told Forbes.com Tuesday. “We just wanted to choose a really large number [bold mine-DL].” ~Forbes

I suppose we should be grateful that there are people in government who think multiple hundreds of billions still count as a large number.