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    I admit I tended to swallow free-market ideology right up until TARP disabused me. The point you make about greed and sloth being different sides of the same coin, i.e: Both being about obtaining unearned "rewards" despite any suboptimal social outcomes, is most useful. Big government favors rent seekers of all sorts and I wished to be freed from it's burdens, but the most greedy, the oligarchs, discard free markets in a nanosecond to buy the influence that has suffering Main St. paying $trillions to kleptocrats and the largest bonuses in history to Wall St. this year (Bloomberg radio, 10/13).
    So, your plan of regulation and a system to handle TBTF failures looks good to me. I like the part about haircuts; how is it GS got paid 100% on contracts it had with AIG?
    I would like to see lots of clawback and, there has to be plenty of flagrant criminal activity to prosecute.
    Oct 16 05:35 am |Rating: +4 -1 |Link to Comment
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