The official line at the time was “never again,” which made sense in political and economic terms. These large financial firms were provided a scale of assistance that was not generally available to the nonfinancial corporate sector – and certainly not to families who found that the value of their assets (their homes) was below the value of their liabilities (their mortgages).
当时，官方的口径是“下不为例”，从政治和经济角度，这是有意义的。这些金融大企业获得了非金融企业部门一般难以获得的大规模援助——那些发现资产（房子）价值已经低于负债（按揭）价值的家庭则完全不可能获得这样的援助。