What caused the financial crisis? The Big Lie goes viral.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Skybird

By the end of the day, when all intellectuality and arguments is done, it comes down to this simply fact: an economy that runs by making debts, but never paying them back but instead increasing them in a bit oin future generatons cleaning up the growing mess, is a snowball system and necessarily must fail. The details of that failure may differ in the cosmetic display, but the failure is not any more real.

Which brings a question to my mind, in all of the "Left-Right" accusations. How much can we expect a government to regulate industries that function that way when that is the exact same way the government operates? The government bails corporations out with borrowed money, and never actually pays off the interest, much less the principal.