"I am a capitalist pig, and proud of it, thus you would not expect me to support government interference and more strenuous regulation of financial institutions--after all, capitalism (free markets) and tight regulation don't mix well. Well, at the risk of being kicked out of the Capitalist Pig Party, I am in support of tighter regulation of too-big-to-fail (TBTF) institutions--the likes of Citigroup, JPMorgan, Bank of America and (God forbid, after all, they are doing 'God's work' their CEO's words, not mine) Goldman Sachs. Lack of tight regulation in the TBTF space leads to the worst economic system of all: asymmetric socialism. The enormous gains are reaped by employees and shareholders, but losses are socialized and paid by taxpayers. That is simply immoral. Letting companies fail is at the core of capitalism's DNA, and I still stand by that", Vitaliy Katsenelson at Pravda, 30 January 2010, link:
More right-wing opinion from Pravda. Who would have believed this 20 years ago?
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It feels truly surreal to agree with Pravda; next, I'll be getting "The Nation" in my mailbox.
I wonder if Russia is the only nation not captured by Goldman Sachs?
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