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    Let's Not Call It A Bailout; Businesses Didn't Cause The Coronavirus

    Bailouts stir up images of businesses acting recklessly, enriching themselves, and then asking the government for money. That's not the case this time.
    by Pallavi Gogoi Mar 23, 2020 2 minutes
    Bailouts stir up images of businesses acting recklessly, enriching themselves, and then asking the government for money. That's not the case this time.

    Bailout is a dirty word.

    The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines bailout as "a rescue from financial distress."

    So it is accurate to call the $1 trillion-plus package being debated in Congress a bailout.

    But let's not call it that this time.

    During the 2008 financial crisis, after the world economy was brought to its knees,

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