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Next bailout = FDIC?

Jochanan — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 18:50:50 +0000

Reading reports that if WaMu fails tomorrow as expected, the FDIC will need to be bailed out…

Bullshit.

Jochanan — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 03:20:23 +0000

Don’t you think for the amount of money the Big Government® is paying to bailout these free market champions they could have just set up a program to help people from defaulting in the first place?

S&P Lowers WaMu To Junk Status

Jochanan — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 22:48:17 +0000

Still no deal on AIG, WaMu now on the brink.

But John McCain says the economy is sound, so don’t worry.

UPDATE: Maybe someone who’s got a degree in economics and is ordained in the pseudo-faith of the free market can explain this to me, since I don’t get it.

Couldn’t this whole mess been averted by simply bailing out the people who owned the houses? Work out a system where they can pay what they can pay and then cover the difference.

No lost homes… but, erm, more importantly (snark) there would be less defaults and then less bad debt, then less bank failures, and you know, not all this mess.

I mean, ok. Explain it to me without telling me it’s communist or something. Tell me why, in actual practice, it wouldn’t work, without moralizing (ha).

Financial Shitpile

Jochanan — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:13:41 +0000

Umm… is this 1929?

This is your deregulated free market at work.

But it’s irresponsible borrowers! Yeah, but your perverse incentives combined with no regulation lead to irresponsibility. And now we are on the verge of a collapse. Gevalt.