My naive understanding is that governments profit from these bailouts. From this article: > The final cost of the bank bailouts has still to be determined and

My naive understanding is that governments profit from these bailouts. From this article: > The final cost of the bank bailouts has still to be determined and there are a number of factors at play. Nama is projecting to return a surplus of €4 billion to the exchequer but that could go either way and we still don’t have a firm and fast date for its winding up. The US did at least [1]. [1]: https://money.usnews.com/investing/articles/2017-01-19/financial-crisis-bailouts-have-earned-taxpayers-billions https://money.usnews.com/investing/articles/2017-01-19/finan...