Breaking up the banks is hard to do | Dean Baker

Those who like banks that are too big to fail will love the latest financial reform proposals circulating in the US Congress. The bill put forward by Barney Frank, the chairman of the House finance committee, does little to change the current structure of the financial system. The "too-big-to-fail" banks will be left in place, even bigger and less accountable than before. There will be nothing done to separate commercial and investment banking, so giants like Goldman Sachs will be free to speculate with money guaranteed by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The main difference is that the Federal Reserve Board will be granted even more power than it has now. And, we will tell the Fed to be smarter in the future, so that it doesn't make the same stupid mistakes that gave us the current crisis.
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  1. #1    The US govt can SEIZE their assets under emergency provisions. What so hard about that? Perhaps it's the fact that the US govt is no more trustworthy than the CROOKED BANKS.
    written by vaquero since 18 days 17 hours 24 minutesvaquero
  2. #2    Perhaps it's the fact that the US govt is OWNED by the banks - and has been for decades if not centuries?
    written by neoconned since 18 days 8 hours 53 minutesneoconned
  3. #3    We have to leave these institutions in place collecting more of our money so there will be something to plunder when the GOP takes over again in 2012 after Obama is voted out of office by a disgusted, disappointed electorate. Change we can believe in? My ass.
    written by matt since 18 days 51 minutesmatt
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