January 31, 2010

Because no one saw that coming

Other than, say, every conservative around.

Bank bailouts created more risk.

Money quote (see what I did there?)

Barofsky wrote the $700 billion financial bailout has encouraged more risk-taking because bank executives, who are still receiving massive bonuses, figure the government will come to the rescue the next time they steer their ships nearly aground.

No.  Fucking.  Shit.  Once the whole "too big to fail" meme started, why the hell would risk taking be reduced?  Hell, the gubmint will just come and save us the next time.  Also note the slam on the bonuses as well. 

Look, there is no way out that's not going to involve tons of pain.  The question is how much pain and for how long.  The same people who created the regs and whatnot that got us into this mess are the ones now claiming they can get us out.  Yeah, that's going to end well. 


Posted by: alexthechick at 03:26 PM | Comments (8) | Add Comment
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Other than, say, every conservative around.

Not true.  Plenty of conservatives, blindly rooting on wall street, were for some form of bailout, lest the 'financial system collapse'.  The head moron was particularly obtuse on the subject.  Plenty still think that Hammering Hank Paulson did the best he could, when all he really did was spread misinformation and panic so that his cronies at GS and elsewhere could profit massively.

Is there a crisis? Yes, of course.  Unfortunately everything done so far has papered over the problems, at huge expense to the taxpayer.  Hell, many conservatives still think that forcing the banks to mark-to-market is a bad idea.  As if all the bad loans on their books will magically become better if they're not forced to realize the loss when it occurs.  I'd rather have a busted bank than a zombie bank any day.

The bottom line is that there is no consensus on either side of the political aisle on how to proceed, as most people (regardless of ideology) prefer putting off pain in the short term, even if it means more pain drawn out over the longer term.  Combine that with those who still watch Tout TV (CNBC and the like) for their information, my railing against the current government/financial oligarchy is more likely to find a home at DKOS than on most conservative sites.

Posted by: Hermit Dave at January 31, 2010 03:54 PM (WhFvm)

2 In conservatives' defense, it was Bush and his coterie of "compassionate conservatives" trying to get McCain elected who started this crap, so it was "conservatives" much more than conservatives. And I'm pretty sure most real conservatives were pissed off when we found out that Bush' peeps forced some banks to take my money and lied about what was really going on.

I don't understand finance all that well but I do know that "too big to fail" is bad, bad, bad. If the gov't protects the biggies from failing but not the smallies, pretty soon there won't be any smallies, just biggies that are even too bigger to fail.

The first bailout I saw was Chrysler in the 70s and I thought it was a bad idea.
They needed more bailouts because they learned they were too big to fail instead of learning not to be stupid.

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