> The S&L bailout was a foretaste of
>what we could be in for after Glass-Steagall.
Because the S&Ls were allowed, unsupervised, to do business in areas
about which they knew nothing. I said it's how they're regulated that
matters.
Doug
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In principle we could allow crazy people access to bazookas. With proper regulation there would be no ill effects.
One way to regulate is to simply deny banks the power to go into certain areas. This is much simpler than trying to micro-regulate, so to speak.
mbs