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  1. parkersinthehouse

    parkersinthehouse said, 4 months ago

    ok wait a sec

  2. Gladius

    Gladius said, 4 months ago

    Why wait? Good cartoon. Regulation badly needed to be changed. A piss poor job has been done so far.

  3. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, 4 months ago

    They are short a few “spherical objects” to date.

  4. nomad2112

    nomad2112 said, 4 months ago

    I’m sure that’s Howard Dean keeping guard at the DNC party room.

  5. believecommonsense

    believecommonsenseGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    whatever happened to all those TARP billions? an d where is Punk?

  6. cartwrights

    cartwrightsGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    Punk is next to the chair that says “Congress” on it. He’s saying “Rats.” Sort of like Charlie Brown?

    I still wonder if it wouldn’t have been a good idea to let the banks go belly up. Somehow we would have survived.

  7. hintzy

    hintzy said, 4 months ago

    Punk is right behind the armchair, saying “Rats.” Took me a minute to find him! :-p

  8. Gladius

    Gladius said, 4 months ago

    If you think the foreclosures and other disruptions are bad now, allowing the large banks to go “belly up” would have caused a hell of a lot more misery and a number of people might not have survived. That doesn’t mean I’m happy with how the bailout was handled or the lack of Good regulation to help guard against repetition.

  9. David

    DavidGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    The bigger banks bought up all the small banks and put themselves in this perilous position all by themselves

    The guy in the chair…he’s being paid by the rats in the basement through the lobbyists. Until this problem is solved, no amount of government regulation will ever solve this problem. Follow the money.

  10. David

    DavidGenius_badge said, 4 months ago

    It never works when the regulated are paying the regulators by proxy.

  11. Jase99

    Jase99 said, 4 months ago

    cartwrights, if the banks has gone “belly up”, the government would have had to dole out billions of dollars anyway through the FDIC. People with more than $100,000 in a single account (such as retirees) would loose everything beyond the insured amount. Let’s not forget about the uninsured investments. At least with TARP, it was mainly government loans the banks had to pay back and deposits remained safe.

    /IF/ the banks were smart, they’d keep some of the executive restrictions they had under TARP. But then if they were smart, they wouldn’t have gotten themselves in that mess in the first place.