Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (2009)

Re:Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (2009) by ArkyBeagle on Monday February 09, 2015 @08:01AM (#9020912)

Calomiris and Haber ("Fragile By Design") have run the natural experiment between the U.S. and Canada over the 2008 bubble period. The conclusion is the opposite of yours - Canada really just has the one bank, and sailed right through the crisis because they didn't hold as many rotten mortgages.

And in a way, the big banks are effectively nationalized in the U.S. We do maintain parallel governance structures because fully nationalized banks ( like the Bank of England in Britain's Mercantilist heyday ) are ... well, mercantilist.

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Re:Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (2009) by joelwilliamson on Monday February 09, 2015 @09:05AM (#9021156)

> Canada really just has the one bank

Is this supposed to be a figure of speech suggesting Canadian banks policies are so similar they are essentially the same bank? The three largest of the Big Five (RBC, TD and Scotia) are so similar in size none of them can even be said to lead the market.

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Re:Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (2009) by ArkyBeagle on Monday February 09, 2015 @08:45PM (#9024935)

No, it was me misremembering. You are absolutely 100% correct; my bad.

Thank you for the correction, Joel.

The pertinent EconTalk is here: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2014/02/calomiris_and_h.htm...

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