Oct. 22 - Solution to ‘Too-Big-to-Fail’ Banks: Break Up Firms, Avoid Future Bailouts, Public Citizen to Tell Congress

Giant banking firms should be broken up, rules should be reinstated prohibiting commercial banks from risky speculative ventures and new “resolution authority” for non-bank financial institutions should be created, Public Citizen will tell Congress today.

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