"Worst of all, the Implicit Guarantee has led to a dangerous shift in banking behavior.

"Worst of all, the Implicit Guarantee has led to a dangerous shift in banking behavior. With an apparently endless stream of free or almost-free money available to banks – coupled with a well-founded feeling among bankers that the government will back them up if anything goes wrong – banks have made a dramatic move into riskier and more speculative investments, including everything from high-risk corporate bonds to mortgagebacked securities to payday loans, the sleaziest and most disreputable end of the financial system." - Men det er jo USA hvor folk med snablen i statskassen tænker helt anderledes

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/secret-and-lies-of-the-bailout-20130104

Secret and Lies of the Bailout

The federal rescue of Wall Street didn?t fix the economy ? it created a permanent bailout state based on a Ponzi-like confidence scheme. And the worst may be yet to come