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		hartator on Jan 28, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Robinhood is automatically initiating GME sell ord... > Did we learn nothing in 2008? Yep, that we are going to have to pay their losses.

miloignis on Jan 28, 2021 [–]

Something else we learned from 2008 is that the government and taxpayers made money on the bailout because it was paid back with interest, see sources like: https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/

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