Quote Originally Posted by HoreTore View Post
In regards to the bank bailout, I believe the momey given should've been treated like a bid, and the government given the appropriate amount of shares. If that would've meant all the shares(I don't really know what a US investment bank is/was worth...), then the state would've been given complete ownership, which it could then sell off again when the situation stabilized and people wanted to buy the shares.
That's what people were crying out for them to do, however the "People Who Matter" were intent on pretending that the problems with banks were merely based on liquidity access and not insolvency.