It kind of felt like to me that the government had a backdoor agreement in place for them to purchase WM well before they declined to offer WM a bailout and dec

It kind of felt like to me that the government had a backdoor agreement in place for them to purchase WM well before they declined to offer WM a bailout and declared them insolvent. It was a matter of hours between those two events and there is no way any due diligence was done and negotiations couldn't happen that quick. I had bet money on the bailout so I was bitter for a while. First real market lesson for me.