Originally Posted By: Derid

If the market had been allowed to correct naturally, and the "too big to fail" had been allowed to fail - the immediate correction would have been harsher but we would have been able to have a real recovery and not be still sitting here waiting for the other shoe to drop.



This was tried during Great Depression, only this time around there isn't Great Britain empire and Hitler's Europe burning through all reserves to wage war. US without WW2 would probably still be suffering from Great Depression well into 50s.

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