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by AnimalMuppet 3954 days ago
> if it weren't for government the bad banks would have failed in 2008-- and we would have had a real recovery afterwards.

We would - but at the price of a much worse crash. (Which doesn't mean that the result, today, would have been any better - the further down the bottom was, the better the recovery has to be to reach the same point.)