WASHINGTON (AP) - For all the difficult free-market issues raised, the big U.S. intervention in banks has its precedents, from wholesale wartime takeovers of entire industries to the seizing of hundreds of failed savings and loans in the 1980s.
Most nationalizations have been temporary, but some, like the public-private passenger train company Amtrak, endure.
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