I think it was the crash in the railroad sector in Germany (late 19th century) that made the banks huge industrial owners for a long time. And I know that the Krueger crash made the banking family Wallenberg industrial barons of Sweden.

And I do not think that in any of those cases they had a political class willing to give them lots of taxpayer money to buy up the real economy.

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