Quote Originally Posted by Acala View Post
When you buy stock in a corporation, you rely on being insulated from anything the corporation does. You rely on the government-created corporate shield limiting your losses to just the amount you invested.
Absent the government creating that shield, you would still rely on it.

Are you saying that investors shouldn't be limited to the amount they invested?

If I inherited stocks in BP from grandparents, should all the people affected by the oil spill have been able to go after everything I owned?