A couple of flaws in the article:<p>&gt;That will keep the market flooded with artificially cheap Sharp products -- mobile phones, solar panels, air conditioners, printers, microwave ovens<p>Sharp doesn&#x27;t dominate any of those markets. If it went bust people would buy them as cheap pretty much from other Asian manufacturers.<p>&gt;The bank bailout does nothing to improve Sharp’s corporate strategy<p>Sharp seems about to be bought by Foxconn which is quite a change of strategy. It wouldn&#x27;t have happened if the government had let it go bust years ago.<p>The main effect of letting Sharp go bust would be to throw 50000 people on the labour market who in efficient market fantasy land might all be snapped up by more efficient employers but who in reality would probably have been mostly unemployed.