Lisnaholic

In Britain we also had a bank bail-out scandal, over a bank called Northern Rock. My understanding is that there's a cycle:

> greedy banks make dodgey investments
> directors take huge bonuses and deflate bank funds
> bank teters on brink of collapse, which would wipe out small customers' savings
> to avoid above, government bails out bank with taxpayers' money
> bank survives, directors are off the hook and return to collecting fat-cat bonuses
> the only net losers are the taxpayers, who as usual have to suck it up

If Dodd-Frank prevents or inhibits that damaging cycle, then it's a mistake to repeal it, I would've thought.

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Chula Vista

It's huge mistake. Hopefully some republican senators vote their conscious and it fails to get through.

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