By JOHN B. TAYLOR
It’s good news there’s now bipartisan agreement that the financial reform bill should not be a “bailout bill,” and that amendments to Connecticut Sen. Chris Dodd’s draft legislation are being proposed and debated with this agreement in mind. The biggest challenge in this bailout reform debate is to avoid giving the federal government more discretionary power, whether by creating a special bailout fund or by providing more ways to bypass proven bankruptcy rules. Experience shows that such power would increase, not decrease, the likelihood of another crisis.
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