Throwing money at banks hasn’t helped homeowners: foreclosures continue to increase. Letting AIG fail might have hurt some systemically important institutions, but dealing with that would have been better than to gamble upwards of $150 billion and hope that some of it might stick where it is important.
——缓慢的救助计划从来就不会成功。将钱砸给银行也不会帮助房贷人——越来越多的人会被迫搬出自己的房子。与其花费高达1500亿美元美国国际集团（AIG），不如让其破产。