WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--The cost of the financial bailout, originally projected to be in the hundreds of billions, is now expected to be less than $50 billion, the White House said Thursday. The lower estimate comes as the bailout plan, a $700 billion investment in the financial sector by the U.S. government under what is formally called the Troubled Asset Relief Program, is expected to end Monday. http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100930-716142.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/01/business/01tarp.html?src=busln