"When they win they walk off with the profits*, when they lose the taxpayer pays. We really need to go more directly at these issues like incentives." Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel laureate economist. (* Note Mr. Stiglitz assumes that reported profits are real. In the subprime case no profits were actually realized until the Federal government intervened with taxpayer funds.) |
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