Hindsight Quote by Steve Bannon

I think the bailouts in 2008 were wrong.

— Steve Bannon

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

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

“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

The bank bailout should have been more focused on helping small and medium sized banks, on helping homeowners. I think the trade agreements are…

— Joseph Stiglitz

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

When the banks crashed the global economy in 2007-08, it was they who received a bailout while the rest of us got austerity.

— David Olusoga

As Americans, we shouldn't like bailouts. Where I come from, if someone takes a risk and they're going to make the profit from that…

— Henry Paulson

“the correct leadership here is to step up and say this is not a bailout for the american people. this is giving CASH to…

— Dylan Ratigan

“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

My mother always taught me that two wrongs don't make a right. We shouldn't bail out Wall Street. We shouldn't bail out Detroit. It…

— Peter Schiff