> Which is why we can't think of any high profile examples of private banks needing to be bailed out by taxpayers, right? Which says nothing about whether the

> Which is why we can't think of any high profile examples of private banks needing to be bailed out by taxpayers, right? Which says nothing about whether the frequency of bailouts would be much higher or not if all banks were government owned & operated. As bad as TARP was - while still earning a profit for the government - the government bank scenario may have been even worse. You can see examples in this thread of the incompetence of government banking in Europe, in Germany for example. If the Germans can't operate a government bank at a superior level, California's government would be an epic disaster.