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> and bail out the banks again,

This time, please, can we not bail out the bankers?

Ideally, yes. But if we haven't figured out a way around the whole "too big to fail" thing, let's not bail out the fake economy along with the real economy.

> "too big to fail"

I get bailing out the banks.

But we can bankrupt the owners, in the case of partnerships, and cancel the shares of public companies.

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