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Elizabeth Warren: We could address the to-fail part by trying to eliminate all the different ways that massive financial institutions…

On the recordJune 24, 2014
We could address the to-fail part by trying to eliminate all the different ways that massive financial institutions could take on too much risk, or we could address the too-big part of it by breaking up the biggest banks so that even if they did take on too much risk we could let them fail without worrying that they would bring down the whole economy.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Warren discusses solutions to the too-big-to-fail problem in banking.

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