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The simultaneous rejection of the bailout and a corrupt ruling class

Monday was the rarest event in American politics: Public opinion actually influenced what the government did.
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  • Wednesday, October 1, 2008 09:03 AM

    @blunder

    Actually, I was just curious. The last company I was with was a start-up and is only continuing to function because the founder keeps it going. Funding ran out, etc. I was just wondering the frequency of failure for start-ups outside of reading stale statistics.

    I'm going to ask two purposefully naive questions....

    1. Why can't the government provide loans directly to the businesses that need them? I thought it already had programs for this.

    2. Instead of buying the toxic debts directly, why can't it provide loans to companies that will buy them?

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