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> if they are wrong too often, they go bankrupt. Unless they're banks, or auto manufacturers, or any other huge corporation that would get bailed out by the go
by thesuitonym 6y ago
> if they are wrong too often, they go bankrupt.
Unless they're banks, or auto manufacturers, or any other huge corporation that would get bailed out by the government. Wonder why that bailing out is a problem for socialist governments, but not capitalist ones.
- chordalkeyboard 6y agoit is a huge problem because it transforms a market into an oligarchy where profits are privatized and losses are socialized.
- cbmuser 6y agoBailing out big corporations is an exception, not the norm and it normally results in the government taking up ownership of the corporation. In Germany, the Hypovereinsbank which got bailed out became state-owned.