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Cheaper financing or rebate check?

Allan Sloan weighs two benefits of the stimulus package -- the rebate check and bigger government-financed home loans. The really rich aren't getting rebates, but, he says, the loans are a different story.

Allan Sloan is a senior editor-at-large at Fortune (APM)

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