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krugman.blogs.nytimes.com - 6/19/2009

Too big to fail FAIL

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Too big to fail, even in 1982 I'm a big advocate of much strengthened financial regulation. One argument I don't buy, however, is that we should try to shrink financial institutions down to the point where nobody is too big to fail. Basically, it's just not possible. The point is that finance is ...

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nytimes.com - 6/21/2009

The Nation - If It’s Too Big to Fail, Is It Too Big to Exist?

— nytimes.com — Nearly a century ago, the jurist Louis Brandeis railed against what he called the “curse of bigness.”... He warned that banks, railroads and steel companies had grown so huge that they were lording it over the nation’s economic and political life. “Size, ... (more) The Nation - If It’s Too Big to Fail, Is It Too ...

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correntewire.com - 6/23/2009

Why the public option is a FAIL in the making and no progressive should support it

— correntewire.com — It's simple. You do the math on savings and you look at how the insurance companies are... going to behave, given their incentives*. From Bill Moyers Journal on May 25, 2009 : BILL MOYERS: I want to get your thoughts on President Obama's plan. As I ... (more) Why the public option is a FAIL in the making and no ...

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baselinescenario.com - 6/20/2009

Too Big To Fail, Politically

— baselinescenario.com — What is the essence of the problem with our financial system – what brought us into deep... crisis, what scared us most in September/October of last year, and what was the toughest problem in the early days of the Obama administration? The issue ... (more) Too Big To Fail, Politically

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Krugman: Too Big to Fail Will Always Be With Us
Matthew Yglesias — ... One thing I’ve been inclined to say ever since the financial crisis hit is that rather than trying to rely on superhuman supervisory regulators to keep “too big to fail” financial institutions out of trouble, it would make more sense to use regulation to simply prevent financial institutions from getting too big to fail. Paul Krugman says that’s a pipe dream: ...

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