• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    8 hours ago

    “When you lose money for individual consumers — i.e. taxpayers and citizens — people in government get very, very upset. Regulators get very, very upset,” Blankfein said.

    Normally… yeah. Under this regime? I genuinely doubt they’d give a single fuck.

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      Maybe if those individuals are rich. Everyone else has been getting screwed without the government caring for a long while. It’s why so many had foreclosed on their home in 2008 while big banks were bailed out and their execs rewarded themselves with big bonuses.