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2016 Postmortem

Time_Lord

(60 posts) Sun Oct 11, 2015, 11:14 AM Oct 2015

Still, it was the bankers fault that they caused the Great Recession

and they were never arrested and charged. Instead, they were given golden parachutes and stock bonuses.

It was the bankers' responsibility to clean up the mess, not the government's responsibility to bail them out of the mess they created.

Thus "Too big to fail banks" are too big to exist, and must be chopped down.

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2016 Postmortem

Time_Lord

Still, it was the bankers fault that they caused the Great Recession

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