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Break Up Big Banks

Amanda Terkel

Sherrod Brown, David Vitter Team Up To Break Up The Banks

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 03.28.2013 | Politics
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WASHINGTON -- Multi-trillion dollar financial institutions continue to get richer, exerting more and more control over both America's economy and its ...

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Shahien Nasiripour

Another Top Fed Official Calls For U.S. To Break Up Megabanks

HuffingtonPost.com | Shahien Nasiripour | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Referring to the danger posed by megabanks as one that's able to spread "debilitating viruses throughout the financial world," a second top Federal Re...

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Breaking Up the Big Banks, and Why Congress Won't Do It

Robert Reich | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Robert Reich

Two ideas are floating around Washington regarding how to handle 'too big to fail' banks, but only one is supported by the Treasury and the White House. Unfortunately, it's the wrong one.

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Pass Financial Regulatory Reform - Then Break Up the Big Wall Street Banks

Robert Creamer | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
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Robert Creamer

With no regard for history -- and here I mean the events of only 12 months ago -- the Republicans and Big Banks have the audacity to contend that the creation of jobs requires the lowest levels of regulation possible.

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