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what is the coupon reduction, the expenditure reduction every
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year at 5 percent interest that just makes a present value
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decline of 772 million?
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Well, it's 5 percent of the principal.
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If you have 772 million in the bank and every year 5 percent of
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that you throw away, you've thrown away the whole
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value, at 5 percent interest,
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of the 772 million.
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So by reducing your expenditures by 5 percent every
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year you defray the 772 million dollar loss.
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So the critical thing, the critical mistake that the
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administration made is they had a short run problem with a bunch