What's bad for the economy is the fractional reserve banking practices that generate the bloated balloon of consumer and other credit that the western world has become so addicted to these last few decades. I don't think the government would need to consider reigning in predatory banking practices with it's left hand, if it weren't simultaneously using its right hand to give banks carte blanche to fuck up right and left without fear that their constant state of insolvency, and other abuses, could present even the remotest possibility that their indiscretions might come back to bite them in the ass.
The Rev