The overriding public interest at the current moment is to maintain a functioning financial system, and regulators clearly felt this was at risk from a Bear failure. Just once we'd like to see what would happen if a big bank did fail, but the current general market panic arguably isn't the best time to have that experiment. Presumably Bear will now be shopped to private buyers.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Is Bear Stearns too big to fail?
This is classic moral hazard. If the Fed bails out Bear Stearns because of a domino theory (if Bear fails, it will bring the system down with it), where does it stop? From WSJ:
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