Saturday, November 21, 2009

The Big Squander

Paul Krugman wrote this article about the bailout of the banks during the financial crisis of 2008. The government should have insisted that the banks take a haircut on the credit default swaps that were bought from AIG. They did not. The banks obtained 100% payout on the CDS, which were funded by the tax payers. Now the banks can pay multi million dollar bonuses again. What a corrupt world.