President Barack Obama will be giving a speech about the economy in just a few minutes at the Brookings Institution which we will be live-blogging here at NPR's The Two-Way newsblog.

We expect the president to say he has plans for some of the estimated $200 billion in bank bailout money that the federal government now expects to have on hand because of the taxpayer investments in the banks performing better than was forecast. Some of the large banks have repaid TARP funds faster than had been expected for instance.

White House officials have told reporters some of the money will be spent on providing needed credit to small businesses in an attempt to get job creation going, some will go to further infrastructure projects and some will go to deficit reduction.