The bailouts were a colossal mistake, and make no mistake they are still going on in the form of money counterfeiting.
And we will be reaping the consequences of these mistakes, as we should.
Apparently we are too stupid to learn any other way.
The bailouts were no mistake. They were a deliberate transfer of a large portion of assets held by the citizenry to the accounts of the Bankers and associated government entities and persons, theft on a grand scale as it were.