#bailouts — Public Fediverse posts

Why Spirit Airlines Failed While European Budget Carriers Thrive

The yellow planes will fly no more. Though that may be good news for the major carriers and…
#Europe #EU #Airlines #Bailouts #European #federalbailouts #unitedairlines
https://www.europesays.com/europe/38778/

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/5/9/800035133/series/trump-economy-broken-twice-covid-china-tariffs/?utm_source=dkre2&utm_medium=email
#trump #donold #donaldvonshitsinpants #trumpstein #trumpsteinclass #trumpcrimefamily #tariffs #economy ##uspol #uspolitics #history #news #Infrastructure #jobs #employment #AmericanRecoveryandReinvestmentAct #tradewar #china #bailouts #covid #scotus #iranwar #rnc

From the Spirit Effect to the Spirit Dilemma

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-financial-page/from-the-spirit-effect-to-the-spirit-dilemma

#BANKS AND #GOVERNMENT ARE #STEALING RIGHT NOW!

They are cheating you when your are paying or "bailing out" a private #bank for re-loaning too much money to others or #speculating and #gambling too much.

Banks and Gov do #bailouts with public money which is basically #subsidising bad people and projects for industrial #destructive things and #pollution to our whole #system.
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#AltText #Medicare #Shrug #NoMoney #Cheaters #Gov

#BANKS AND #GOVERNMENT ARE #STEALING RIGHT NOW!

They are cheating you when your are paying or "bailing out" a private #bank for re-loaning too much money to others or #speculating and #gambling too much.

Banks and Gov do #bailouts with public money which is basically #subsidising bad people and projects for industrial #destructive things and #pollution to our whole #system.
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#AltText #Medicare #Shrug #NoMoney #Cheaters #Gov

#BANKS AND #GOVERNMENT ARE #STEALING RIGHT NOW!

They are cheating you when your are paying or "bailing out" a private #bank for re-loaning too much money to others or #speculating and #gambling too much.

Banks and Gov do #bailouts with public money which is basically #subsidising bad people and projects for industrial #destructive things and #pollution to our whole #system.
🔥 🐝 🔥 🔥 🐝 🔥 🔥 🐝 🔥 🔥 🐝 🔥
#AltText #Medicare #Shrug #NoMoney #Cheaters #Gov

#BANKS AND #GOVERNMENT ARE #STEALING RIGHT NOW!

They are cheating you when your are paying or "bailing out" a private #bank for re-loaning too much money to others or #speculating and #gambling too much.

Banks and Gov do #bailouts with public money which is basically #subsidising bad people and projects for industrial #destructive things and #pollution to our whole #system.
🔥 🐝 🔥 🔥 🐝 🔥 🔥 🐝 🔥 🔥 🐝 🔥
#AltText #Medicare #Shrug #NoMoney #Cheaters #Gov

#BANKS AND #GOVERNMENT ARE #STEALING RIGHT NOW!

They are cheating you when your are paying or "bailing out" a private #bank for re-loaning too much money to others or #speculating and #gambling too much.

Banks and Gov do #bailouts with public money which is basically #subsidising bad people and projects for industrial #destructive things and #pollution to our whole #system.
🔥 🐝 🔥 🔥 🐝 🔥 🔥 🐝 🔥 🔥 🐝 🔥
#AltText #Medicare #Shrug #NoMoney #Cheaters #Gov

"We can't let them fail! They're too big!"

Then you didn't have capitalism.

You had socialism for corporations and "personal responsibility" for everyone else.

Privatised profits, socialised losses.

It's not a bailout. It's theft with a press release.

#CorporateWelfare #Bailouts #Capitalism #Cronyism #Sovereignty

"We can't let them fail! They're too big!"

Then you didn't have capitalism.

You had socialism for corporations and "personal responsibility" for everyone else.

Privatised profits, socialised losses.

It's not a bailout. It's theft with a press release.

#CorporateWelfare #Bailouts #Capitalism #Cronyism #Sovereignty

Keeping your #money in a credit union fights #inflation. #Banks create money, lend up to 900% of deposits! Goo: "Credit unions face stricter #regulations, such as #caps on member #business #loans (often limited to 12.25% of total #assets)." #supply&demand #hyperinflation #bailouts #EndTheFed #Cash

#DiabloCanyon #NuclearPowerPlant brings #profits for PG&E, deadly risk for residents [and the #environment]

Tina Landis
August 19, 2024

"Despite opposition from residents and #environmental organizations, California legislators passed #SenateBill846 in 2022 to extend the life of the dangerous, aging Diablo Canyon #nuclear facility.

"Located on the Central Coast surrounded by several #fault lines, one has to question why a nuclear facility was placed in an #earthquake zone to begin with, much less allowing it to continue to operate well past its retirement date. The world witnessed what can happen to a coastal nuclear facility in an earthquake zone when the 2011 #Fukushima disaster triggered a meltdown that displaced nearly half a million residents, with vast amounts of #RadioactiveWater still being released into the ocean today.

"As long as Diablo Canyon remains open, Californians live with the constant risk of suffering the same type of disaster.

"From its inception, Diablo Canyon had little public support. Protests occurred regularly during its construction, and thousands were arrested for #CivilDisobedience actions in 1981.

"In the 1970s and 1980s, California’s three largest utilities spent billions of dollars building dangerous and costly nuclear plants like Diablo Canyon, which resulted in skyrocketing rates for customers. Big industry fought back against these increased energy costs, which resulted in deregulation bills consisting of multi-billion dollar #bailouts to the state’s utility companies to cover their costly investments in nuclear.

"Today, the last remaining nuclear plant operating in the state is still draining billions in funds that could be used for safe, #renewable energy development. To keep Diablo Canyon running 5 years past its retirement date is expected to cost $8 billion to $12 billion. A federal aid package of $1.1 billion will contribute to some of those costs – meaning federal #taxpayers’ money – while the remaining billions will be passed on to #California #ratepayers.

"Despite being run by PG&E and only generating power for its territory, customers of #SouthernCaliforniaEdison and #SanDiegoGasAndElectric will help cover the remaining costs of the Diablo extension. Edison bills will increase by around $1.25 a month and SDG&E by 87 cents a month, while PG&E customers are expected to chip in $2.07 a month – and that’s just for the first year. Critics warn that costs are likely to increase in coming years to keep the plant running, and that’s on top of already skyrocketing PG&E rates that have doubled over the last decade. And if PG&E collects more funds than are needed for Diablo’s operations, they get to keep it!

"In 2022, when legislators pushed this through #SB846, the excuse of energy shortages was used due to pandemic-related supply chain issues and massive #wildfires. But today, there is plenty of energy being produced with increased #solar and #battery storage capacity that has kept the lights on even during this summer’s unprecedented heat waves driving up demand. The California Public Utility Commission’s own reporting shows that an additional 18,500 megawatts of new resources were added to the grid between 2020 and 2024, which is enough to power around 14 million homes. Another 11,000 megawatts will be added by 2028.

"Nuclear has the third highest lifecycle emissions of all energy sources after scrubbed #coal fired plants and natural gas – meaning it is far from being zero-emission. It also creates the unresolved issue of the #RadioactiveWaste which remains dangerous for tens of thousands to millions of years.

"Keeping the Diablo facility running will only hold back further development of safe and truly low-carbon, low cost renewable sources like solar and #wind energy.

"So why isn’t Diablo Canyon being decommissioned? The short answer is that #capitalism must ensure continued profits for the #InvestorClass.

"SB 846 authorized Diablo’s extension through 2030, and gave PG&E a $1.4 billion loan for the for-profit utility to facilitate the plant’s extension. #GovernorNewsom facilitated another transfer of taxpayer dollars to PG&E through an additional $400 million loan from the state’s general fund, included in the recent budget deal. Critics warn that these 'loans' will never be repaid, meaning residents will be fully subsidizing the Diablo extension – from federal and state tax dollars to our utility fees.

"But there is a way out. SB 846 allows the #CPUC to retire the plant earlier than 2030 if sufficient levels of new renewable zero-carbon energy resources exist, are interconnected, and meet demand, which is the case.

"CPUC has a long track record of serving PG&E’s interests, so intervention by the commission is unlikely. One example of many that demonstrates their close relationship: CPUC is not requiring PG&E to show how much of our utility bill actually goes to the Diablo extension, but instead lumps the cost in with 'public purpose programs,' making it impossible to determine.

"While communities are demanding an early shutdown of Diablo, PG&E is currently applying for a 20-year license renewal from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission [#NRC] for the facility, which is expected to be approved. This would mean customers will foot the bill to keep this dangerous nuclear facility running through 2045, far beyond the original expiration dates of 2024 and 2025.

"CPUC has proven their unwavering support time and again for PG&E’s monopoly control over the state’s energy system at the expense of residents’ safety and affordable rates. The Diablo Canyon nuclear plant is just another mechanism to squeeze ratepayers and line the pockets of shareholders who live far away from the dangers posed by this aging facility. Only a public takeover of this #corrupt utility can win clean, safe and affordable energy for all."

Source:
https://www.liberationnews.org/diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant-brings-profits-for-pge-deadly-risk-for-residents/

#PGAndE #RethinkNotRestart #NuclearCorruption #NuclearBailouts #RenewablesNow #NoNukes
#DiabloCanyonNuclearPlant
#NuclearPowerCorruptionAndLies #California #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife

@RitchieTorres The FDIC is thus depleting its reserves by covering uninsured losses. Only 5-10% of deposits were insured, meaning the FDIC of shelling out roughly 10-20x the amount that’s actually required.

#SVB’s customers weren’t individual depositors. They were businesses. Whose interests are being protected here, and why?

Never mind; I think we know. #The1Percent

#MoralHazard #handouts #bailouts #cuiBono

@edavies
A #flatFee would work if ceteris paribus (all things remain equal), but we all know now they have a #moneyPump that they use to help those close to #power and so this is likely to be a remix of the failed #trickleDownEconomics.

Even years before the 2019 #RepoCrisis and ensuing #bailouts thinkers were saying a #carbonTax would lead to #financialisation, without properly addressing issues.

We need honest #leadership.

#inflation #deGrowth
@openrisk @douginamug

@kappazeta
Unfettered #capitalism for the winners and #bailouts and protections when the #wellConnected, overlords of the #corporateState fail.

We like to think that we are slowly turning the ship around but when we look around people are still terrified of where #BigTech and govt are going.

Most seem to grasp for any #brioche (read: trinkets) thrown at them.

Meanwhile the #onePercent are having a veritable shoppingSpree.

#socialismForTheRich #freeMoney #cantillonEffect #assetInflation

@jawdrop
When we registered here we didn't see it using Cloudflare. We don't use their BrowserInterface.

What we are seeing is #Cloudflare acting like a #tentacleSquid, #extorting, and growing their reach constantly. They seem to benefit from #bailouts. Why we say we need to #useBitcoin and #abandonTheClearnet and start connecting with people in our #localCommunities using the #newInternet with them directly.

#SelfHost all the things (over #Tor and #I2P)

@sunny @aktivismoEstasMiaLuo

@carl
Until now we thought #HowieHawkins, presidential candidate for the #GreenParty, was black for some reason. He's white, maybe his voice misled us.

We just found the podcast where he was interviewed by #LeeCamp here:
https://m.soundcloud.com/rttv/redacted-tonight-green-party-presidential-candidate-howie-hawkins

He talks about pardoning wrongfully imprisoned including Black Panthers. Also talks about #healthcare, #netNeutrality, #wallSteet #bailouts, #sanders, #julianAssange.

@FuchsiaShock

Banker #bailouts are a form of looting by stealth.

#billionaireClass #socialismForTheRich #cantillionaire #cantillonEffect #looting #inflation #centralbanking #keynesianism #qe #wallstreet #bankers #fundingBothSidesOfWar #warIsARacket #militarisation #warOnThePoor #billgates #humanEnergy #divideAndRule #leftVsRight #falseChoice #moneyPrimary #riggedPrimaries #bernieOrVest #austrianSchool #economics #bitcoinStandard

@strypey
Today in #Australia #3M #facemasks were TAKEN from good #hospitals, under "claims" that they were not "effective".

Yes it does sound familiar.

...and we are seeing at this time, that #kleptocrats are stealing from govts in huge quatities (#bailouts, #piracy on the highSeas, etc.). While #virtueSignalling in the #theMedia that they're #servingTheCommunity in an almost #ChristLike fashion.

Keep your ear to the ground for #doublethink - its everywhere!!

We are seeing it daily now!