> If it was so rational, why did they continue to demand a bailout even after it became clear the FDIC would get them nearly 100% back? Was it maybe… greed? Pe

> If it was so rational, why did they continue to demand a bailout even after it became clear the FDIC would get them nearly 100% back? Was it maybe… greed? People hate this when I say it but ideology makes you a dummy. And that's what they were being because of their paranoid libertarian ideology.