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They’ll just get end up getting subsidies if they have to even pay anything
Subsidies for what? Those fines are like 3/4 of their market cap, there's zero way to pay that and remain an existing company.
i doub tthey get fined that much. but they are important to keeping boomers in the right wing spheres by peddling propaganda.
** The banking industry, hiding in the corner looking sheepish **
That would be an egregiously stupid loan to make for any bank. These fines are from only 3 states. If they actually succeed, more states are going to line up to collect their pound of flesh. Giving the company a lifeline would only allow more debt to pile up, with zero expectation of return
I meant the banking industry over leveraging themselves into extinction and then walking it off because if subsidies and bailouts