Break up big banks

To big to fail?
Moral hazard?
Bailout money flowing to Wall Street?
The solution: break them up!


(click to enlarge; graph courtesy of James Chanos)



Interview of Simon Johnson, former chief economist of IMF. (20 mins interview from Bloomberg)

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