Economics

Biggest Bailouts Yet Spark a Crisis of Confidence in Capitalism

  • Intervention puts a floor under markets, may squeeze them too
  • Growing list of industries is now dependent on public purse

     

Photographer: Dimas Ardian/Bloomberg
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