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Presidential candidate advisers disagree on econ solutions

Economic advisers to presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama agree: The $700 billion financial bailout package isn’t enough to save the flagging economy.

But their disagreements on what to do were in high relief at a UW-Madison School of Business forum Friday that came amid the unpredictable global financial crisis that has become the dominant theme of a campaign with less than four weeks before election day.