Sheila Bair Admits: "They should have let Bear Stearns fail"
"Let’s face it," she said. "Bear Stearns was a second-tier investment bank, with — what? — around $400 billion in assets? I’m a traditionalist. Banks and bank-holding companies are in the safety net. That’s why they have deposit insurance. Investment banks take higher risks, and they are supposed to be outside the safety net. If they make enough mistakes, they are supposed to fail. So, yes, I was amazed when they saved it. I couldn’t believe it. When they told me about it, I said: 'Guess what: Investment banks fail.'"Read the article. One of the things that it makes clear: Geithner is a little weasel.
Too bad Bair didn't talk this tough during the crisis.
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Guess what: a lot of the loans made by commercial banks and depository institutions fail.
What a stupid, self-contradictory whore.
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