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Bailing banks out and nationalizing them are virtually equivalent.

Except for the results for shareholders, bondholders, and executives, all of whom end up much better off after the bailouts.

And with the inclusion of the taxpayers who made the bailouts possible and who will ultimately pay the highest price.

Yay for corporatism with a socialist twist.

Seeing that this got flagged down, simply means to me that the folks who flagged this comment down have no respect for reality...