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Re:A million-dollar brownstone that no one owned by asdfasgasdgasdg on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @07:57PM (#17814957)
> There is no evidence of who lost money, and it very well could have been taxpayers through the various bailouts.

The taxpayers did not lose money in the bailouts . . . they didn't get acceptable risk-adjusted returns, but they didn't lose money.

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Re:A million-dollar brownstone that no one owned by lotsofpulp on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @08:25PM (#17815101)
It's the same thing. Warren Buffett got a great deal, Blackstone got great deals, anyone with cash at the time got better returns (equity) than taxpayers. Why shouldn't the taxpayers have been similarly rewarded?
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