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by pjc50 2275 days ago
> the average person doesn't have the same access to financing as some minority of well connected entities to financing bodies

That's .. also a market. The institutions have substantially greater ability to pay back, and in the case of banks, capital requirements that reduce their credit risk. They don't have the same loss of income risks as a human. Nobody should expect a market to produce a fair outcome from an uneven initial distribution.

Is there any evidence that access to Fed capital is controlled by political connections on an institution by institution basis?