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chermi • today at 2:15 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

What do you want? Some oversight board voting on what companies are allowed to do with their own money?

Wtf are the downvotes. It's a question.


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octoberfranklin • today at 2:54 AM

Your perspective made sense until 2007.

We don't live in that world anymore. The bailouts changed the world forever. Since 2007 there is no such things as "with their own money" when it involves a big company risking bankruptcy. It's no longer private money.

Chancellor on the brink

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