I thought the nature of free market capitalism was for the federal government to avoid picking winners at all costs. You let the "genius of the market" work its magic, and let the chips fall where they may.
This just strikes me as unprecedented. We are moving into an era where the little guy is allowed to fail, but the little guy is also, through his tax burden, required to bail out the big guys, even when they make horribly stupid mistakes on a global level.
This is not an insignificant development.
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