Comment by hnmonkey

This is not the same concern you're expressing unfortunately. You're arguing elsewhere that the government punishing outright fraud is manipulating the market and choosing winners and losers. I see nothing about that at your link and nothing that defends your belief in that. He's saying that the fed and the government should step in and make decisions about trying to buoy the market, which is what you want them to do when the economy might go belly up so that people don't all lose their jobs and riot and starve. I do see that it's where you got the phrase 'government should pick winners and losers' from however but the context is vastly different than what the original article we're commenting on is about.