Government is Proposing to Institutionalize Bailouts for the Giant Banks

" Make loans to the failed institution, to purchase its debt obligations and other assets, to assume or guarantee this institution's obligations, to acquire equity interests, to take liens and so on. This means the FDIC would be putting its own - that is to say, the taxpayer's - skin in the game, a radical departure from standard bankruptcy, and an approach that mimics closely the actions the U.S. Treasury took under TARP. Thus, this bill institutionalizes TARP for bank holding companies."