Stephen Bainbridge: A Basic Problem with the Bailout

Here’s a core problem with the Paulson-Bernanke $700 bailout: Once the new rules of the financial system are set, a bunch of very smart people will get paid a ton of money by hedge funds and the like to game that system. It would be the height of naivety to believe that regulators can write a system that can’t be gamed.

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