the problem with companies like citigroup or lehman aig is that shareholders and bondholders are like sheep..
shareholdes have absolutely no power in how the companies operate or pay scale of management..the management of these banks and many companies are and act like kings.
a ceo should be paid more than 20 times the average worker fo the company..
obama makes less than a bank ceo.
obama job is more important to Americans.
barkley ceo gets 75 million..etc.
there is just too much corporate embezzlemetn and corrruption causing companeis to go bankrupt
the subprime was corporate corruption and the crash in 1929 was financial corruption.
markets have no rules and regulations and management fo thes corporations can do whatever they want including giving themself a 10 million dollar raise..the CEO chooses the board of directors..the board of directors votes on ceo salary.
corporate america, corporate welfare, corporate embezzlement
the whole point of bailouts is to prevent companies from going bankrupt and closing their business ==lay offs etc..
Quote from RedDuke:
Government âmay have to do exceptional things again,â Treasury secretary says
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/geithner-warns-of-future-bailouts-2011-01-13?dist=afterbell
Basically, bet the farm with no possibility to loose it. I wish I could do such thing.
Was it not so tragic, it be be hilarious.