Why Aren’t Any Bankers in Prison for Causing the Financial Crisis? (2016)
Causing financial crisis wasn't illegal. Unethical but not a crime. Except for some cases of misselling products, banks playing against the customer etc. Bailout was.<p>For $3 trillion less than bailout, we could have paid off every U.S. mortgage! <a href="http://www.jameslavin.com/articles/2009/04/16/for-3-trillion-less-than-bailout-we-could-have-paid-off-every-u-s-mortgage/" rel="nofollow">http://www.jameslavin.com/articles/2009/04/16/for-3-trillion...</a> [need better source??]<p>Without bank bailout we'd buy banks for pennies. Market forces would work and banking sector would be incentivised to behave properly.