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23 Feb ’16 - 10:51 am
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should have done that years ago instead of making them bigger

The former U.S. Treasury official who led the 2008 bailout program for the nation’s biggest banks says in his new role at the Federal Reserve that Congress and regulators should consider breaking them up to protect the financial system from another crisis.

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis President Neel Kashkari, speaking Tuesday in Washington, said his regional Fed bank will study ways to toughen U.S. banking laws to prevent another financial crisis.

Regulators should consider options including breaking up the nation’s largest financial institutions, loading them up with “so much capital that they virtually can’t fail” and taxing leverage to make the system safer, he said. Tougher oversight will require new legislation, he added.

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23 Feb ’16 - 10:55 am
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Agreed...more small ones.  Scary that so few 'big' banks have so much power and risk...if one (or more) was at risk of failure the cost of the bail out would be staggering.  (not like we haven't been there before)

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pretty startling

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Looks like a series of ant tunnels.

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I agree. However the irony of this coming down from the BIGGEST bank is not lost on me.

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lol, true

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