Consequence #3. More bank failures! As a whole, despite government bailouts and badly compromised attempts at real regulatory reform, the nation's banks and thrifts are no healthier today than they were before the onset of the debt crisis. The main difference between now and then: This time the government is unlikely to have nearly as much political or financial capital with which to try and bail them out.
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