• Bye@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The bailouts were loans. The us govt got that money back.

    Those banks should have been punished though, allowed to fail.

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      10 months ago

      Yes, the private sector did have enough capital to cover those loans. The public sector did it because it was a bad investment when you count opportunity cost.

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      10 months ago

      Didn’t the bailouts return less money with inflation though? We can’t even give students less interest than inflation with student loans. If the tables were turned the banks wouldn’t have taken less than 5% interest.