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How central bankers rationalize selective institutional bailouts

Every time we rescue failing banks, I think about the small business owners who get no bailouts when they make mistakes, and I cannot reconcile why some risks get socialized while others do not.

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The inconsistent application of support reveals uncomfortable truths about whose interests the system is designed to protect.

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