[Petronski]

They are too big to fail. Any Fed who would let them fail ought to be shot.

[library user]

Any Fed who would let them fail ought to be shot.



"Yo, I still say lettum' fail, hommie."

[EGPWS]

They are too big to fail. Any Fed who would let them fail ought to be shot.

Sadly enough you are right since it was the Federal Government helping promote this issue with inane laws dictating that loans need to be given even to those not capable of personally handling the loans that they WANT.

[cowtowney]

The Treasury may not let them fail, but in doing so I hope the equity is wiped out or minimized to $1.00.

[Theophilus]

They are too big to fail

Uncle Sam himself isn't "too big to fail" and if we keep on operating with this attitude, we may end up worse off than Zimbabwe.

[NeoCaveman]

They are too big to fail. Any Fed who would let them fail ought to be shot.

True.

But whose going to jail for running these things as an ATM for politicians and resulting in putting us on the hook for 5 trillion (more) in debt?

[meandog]

They are too big to fail. Any Fed who would let them fail ought to be shot.

This crisis was caused by liberals insisting that unqualified minority and low-income homebuyers get access to the American Dream; and by de-regulation of the banking industry. Having said that, the Fed has absolutely no business in business. If something goes belly-up, let it float...I don't believe in government bailing out industry--government has only an oversight role.