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Tucker Carlson: “Wait, you lose your deposit but keep your debt?”

Featuring: Tucker Carlson, Conservative, Right-wing | Political Commentator, Former Fox News Host | National

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Tucker Carlson Interviews Economist on Japan's Banking Crisis and Global Financial Systems

Published | Video Starts at 36:57

No, the banks were then taken over, bought cheaply, and they still had to repay the loans, but they had nothing left and they were destitute. Wait, you lose your deposit but keep your debt? Yes. How does that work? That's a Federal Reserve policy. Of course, the Fed could have done it very differently. And where we saved those banks, where's. Franklin Roosevelt in this? (36:57–37:01)

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Questions the policy where depositors lose their savings but still owe debts.

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