bank bailout
Lender emergency funding
A bank bailout is government intervention to rescue a failing financial institution, typically through emergency loans, asset purchases, or direct capital injection.
The term gained widespread use during the 2008 financial crisis, when governments prevented major banks from collapsing: Taxpayers were furious about the bank bailouts.
Critics argue bailouts reward reckless behavior; supporters contend they prevent broader economic catastrophe.
- rescueSave from harm
- taxpayerOne who owes government duties
- Wall StreetAmerican finance hub
- Main StreetTown's central thoroughfare
- crisisDecisive dangerous moment
taxpayer money · financial crisis · 2008 · TARP · too big to fail · moral hazard · stimulus · recession · Goldman Sachs · AIG · Lehman · government intervention · intervention · collapse · economic collapse · mortgage · subprime · housing bubble
- economic policymonetary policy, tax policy, fiscal discipline, fiscal stimulus, fiscal restraint
- Bailoutsrescue package, rescue fund, TARP, recapitalization, government aid
- Financial Crisisfinancial crisis, Great Recession, recession, credit crisis, market crash
- Modern IrelandDublin, Good Friday Agreement, housing crisis, marriage equality, peace process
- housing crisishousing bubble, housing crash, subprime mortgages, foreclosures, subprime loans
- Obama EraBarack Obama, Michelle Obama, Joe Biden, Obamacare, Affordable Care Act
bank bailoutbank failure
Financial institution collapse
bank closure · receivership · bank run · bankruptcy · liquidation
bank bailoutlaissez-faire
Noninterference in commerce
creative destruction · austerity · non-intervention · bail-in
bank, banks, banked, banking, banker, bankers, bankable, bail, bails