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Re:Regulators Move to Ease Post-Crisis Oversight of Wall Street by DonnyV on Thursday March 07, 2019 @03:36PM (#19332086)
What about the home owners? No one bailed them out. Its always privatize the profits and socialize the losses.
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Re:Regulators Move to Ease Post-Crisis Oversight of Wall Street by zackmorris on Thursday March 07, 2019 @04:03PM (#19332407)
This is by design:

https://nowthisnews.com/videos/politics/jennifer-lawrence-is...

https://represent.us/

Federal elected officials spend 70% of their time now fundraising, so they only listen to their donors. And their donors are billionaires and large institutions.

So there is no statistical correlation now between an issue's popularity and whether it gets passed into law (voters have been disenfranchised).

Meaning the next bailout will happen exactly the same as the last one, unless left-right coalitions and other organizations work to end corruption at the local grassroots level and work their way up to state and federal.

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Re:Regulators Move to Ease Post-Crisis Oversight of Wall Street by AlexTWithBeard on Thursday March 07, 2019 @05:47PM (#19333398)
There were (and still are) homeowners assist programs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Home_Affordable

Or by "bailout" you mean something different?

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Re:Regulators Move to Ease Post-Crisis Oversight of Wall Street by rayiner on Thursday March 07, 2019 @10:55PM (#19334944)
Would the homeowners have paid back the bailout money with interest?
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