Bailout Quote by Charles Duhigg

The bailout of Fannie Mae is completely off the books. It's going to cost us hundreds of billions of dollars. Yet nobody is placing…

— Leonard Lance

In the real world, banks hang onto their money for fear of making bad loans, no matter how many bailouts or stimulus packages Washington…

— Dick Morris

“Myth: Bail-in plans would recapitalize big banks. Fact: big banks are far too insolvent to remotely be in a position for such restoration.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

If anything, the bailouts actually hindered lending, as banks became more like house pets that grow fat and lazy on two guaranteed meals a…

— Matt Taibbi

Bailouts may have been more tolerable in the early 1990s when they were rare and their use for a failing bank was uncertain. That…

— Jerome Powell

I won't dispute that bankers' privileged treatment in the 2008 crash merits populist scorn. But unfortunately, without a bank bailout, there probably would have…

— Timothy Noah

The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they…

— Ben Stein

“That being said, it may be that opponents of bailouts are not worried about public officials' behavior at all. Perhaps the strategic behavior that…

— Richard Schragger

Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can't stop with just one.

— Thomas Sowell

If you think about those bailouts that happened in 2008, that was a situation in which the government gave, at our expense, enormous sums…

— Angus Deaton

When government is... bailing out banks... we have every good reason to be alarmed.

— Mitt Romney

I think the bailouts in 2008 were wrong. And I think, you look in hindsight, it was a lot of misinformation that was presented…

— Steve Bannon