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\u2022  Luke Gromen argues that the 2008 \u201csocialist bailouts\u201d of too-big-to-fail banks continue to drive political costs 18 years later, linking them to rising socialist appeal.<\/span><\/p>\n

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18 years after socialist bailouts for TBTF banks, the political bill for those bailouts continues to grow. Hard to make the case \u201cthe bailouts saved the system\u201d and \u201csocialism never works\u201d without revealing some uncomfortable political truths about western social democracies.<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u2022  The post quotes Axios on a major socialist electoral victory in New York described as a \u201chuge defeat\u201d for Democrats and an \u201cearthquake\u201d shift.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022  Gromen notes the challenge in claiming bailouts stabilized the system while rejecting socialism, exposing contradictions within Western social democracies.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n


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\u2022  Luke Gromen argues that the 2008 \u201csocialist bailouts\u201d of too-big-to-fail banks continue to drive political costs 18 years later, linking them to rising socialist appeal. 18 years after socialist bailouts for TBTF banks, the political bill for those bailouts continues to grow. Hard to make the case \u201cthe bailouts saved the system\u201d and \u201csocialism […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}