screw that though. if the cost of a sustainable US economy is systematically lining the pockets of these uber privileged institutions, too f-in bad. the fed and the whitehouse facilitated this bullshit. better we swallow the bitter pill now and purge the system of these freeloading mega-marts if we want to remain an even remotely honest, free market. they will only ever get more entrenched if they're saved we can bail them out and people will cry for the necessity, but it's like agreeing to give your lunch money to some idiot thug for the rest of your life because he made you an offer you couldn't refuse i would imagine, this is exactly how hyperinflation happens. 'ownership society' = own your profits AND your losses